About Me

I'm Paul Cato and I live in Queenstown, New Zealand, with my wife, two of my three daughters, 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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Portrait painting

A Commissioned Portrait Completed

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Of all the figures I have painted up until now I have only once needed to paint a convincing facial likeness. (The painting was of my daughter and the purchasers recognized her, from the painting, in town.) My main objective is usually to paint the feminine form in combination with the landscape. I just haven’t [...]