Pauline Bewick was born in England but was brought up on a small farm in Co Kerry. She had an unconventional
upbringing, travelling all over Ireland with her mother in houseboats and railway carriages. She went on to attend schools in England and Wales, eventually returning to Ireland to attend the National College of Art. In 1986 the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin held a touring retrospective exhibition, Two to Fifty, which included 1,500 works, including some dating back to when she was two years old. Her work mostly consists of nature intermingled with natural predators such as foxes.

She employs a sense of freedom and independence within her paintings which allows her to challenge certain preconceived ideas about society; one such notion she
often challenges is that woman is a fragile creature. She regularly depicts women naked and in conflict with predators. Her work can sometimes be seen as a social commentary. In Family, Co Wicklow we see a contemporary depiction of a family with the Wicklow mountains in the background. The flat, colourful surface is typical of Bewick, and the attention to detail in the clothes reflects her interest in hand-woven tapestries and stained glass.

From 1989 to 1991 she lived in Polynesia with her two daughters, and on returning produced a collection of work called South Seas. Bewick has been a regular exhibitor at
the Royal Hibernian Academy since 1956, and in 1996 exhibited a series of paintings entitled Yellow Man, a theme that later developed to include watercolours, oils, tapestry, stained glass, music, dance and theatre. Her biography, Pauline Bewick: Painting a Life by art historian Dr James White, was published in 1995. She lives and works in Co Kerry.
— JOB