Margret Paide 1989 This Wonderful Life. 2025

Margret Paide was born in 1989 and has remained closely connected to her birthplace in Põlvamaa. She graduated in 2014 with a degree in painting from the Tartu Higher Art School Pallas and has participated in numerous exhibitions.

In her work, she creates contemporary variations of motifs, styles, and situations that have already appeared in art history. In this body of work, elements of expressionist sharpness, Art Nouveau ornamentality, and pop-like color vibrancy can be discerned. According to Paide herself, she uses images of classical beauty and places them in everyday situations. “I want to show the audience that beauty exists in everyday life,” Paide says.

She mainly paints nudes, as she is drawn to human fragility, bodily texture, forms, and shapes. “There is a lot of violence in today’s world,” she says. “Nudes are my way of resisting it.”