About Me

I'm Paul Cato and I live in Queenstown, New Zealand, with my family, two fluffy dogs and a very overweight cat. I am a professional artist, specializing in painting large landscape vistas - mostly from southern New Zealand, but also from all around the globe. I also love to paint enchanting figure paintings, often using my beautiful wife and daughters as models.

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Figure Paintings

The Sunflower Pickers

Friday, August 19th, 2011

And now, for something completely different.. I didn’t plan it to be this way but this week, while it was snowing incessantly and the entire view outside was tints of white, I was completing a warm, sunny scene I had begun earlier. Sharon had come into my studio a few weeks back and said “Florals [...]

Chasing the Seagulls

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Here’s another new painting. It is inspired from a photo-shoot a few years back now – about 2001 from memory. I have visualized this painting for some years now, so it is long overdue. The models are, from left to right, Britt, Jen and Ash.

Chubby Cheeks

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

This was a commissioned figure study. Painted in oils on canvas for clients in Australia, this was from a photograph actually taken in Queenstown, New Zealand, a few years back. I figured that the beach background might have a more timeless appeal.