Paula Pohli

Painter and printmaker Paula Pohli was educated in Dublin and Canada. In 2011 she moved to County Mayo. She has made linocuts since 1990 and painted in egg tempera since 2012. Brush and pencil drawings also form part of her extensive artistic output. She produces handburnished linocuts in low editions in black-and-white and in colour. Her prints are cut, carved and printed by hand on watercolour papers without the aid of a printing press. She often makes her own inks (used in the linocut Cliff Home). Her prints have been exhibited in over 28 International Print Biennials in the USA, the UK, Egypt, and Bulgaria. Her paintings and prints have appeared and won awards in the Canadian Art Magazine Art Exhibeo and at the 3rd International FootUnprint Biennial in Connecticut, USA. The Irish Architectural Archive exhibited her work in March 2020 in the exhibition: Paula Pohli - Exhibition for a Good Man, launched by Dr Edward McParland.

Group shows include: Graphic Studio Gallery, SO Fine Art, The Bridge Gallery (Dublin), The Claremorris Gallery (Co. Mayo), Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Royal Ulster Academy. She has also exhibited in The Printmakers Gallery (Dublin), Kenny’s Bookshop & Art Gallery (Galway), Gormley’s (Dublin), and at Cong Art Gallery (Co. Mayo).

Five international solo shows in: Holland, Germany and the USA, including “Recent Linocuts” in the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Connecticut, and “Landscape Linocuts” in New York (both in 2012). She has exhibited prints in group shows at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing, China (2011 and 2012), organised by the Irish Embassy in China.

Her work features in public collections including: AIB, OPW, Wexford Art Collection, The Mater Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, UCD, Tallaght IT, the Danish Art Society, Copenhagen, and the Library of North Carolina University, USA.