Maida Paulin Antigua is an internationally exhibited photographer and pastel painter. She had her start in art by taking drawing lessons from Masha Savitz 14 years ago. After exploring the different art mediums, taking courses at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Center for Adult Education, and the South Shore Art Center, she found herself gravitating towards pastel as her medium of choice. The immediacy, intensity, and beauty of the colors of these eye candy sticks of soft pastels, she found to be both captivating and challenging. She has studied mainly with Anne Heywood but has taken workshops with other pastel artists. Since plein air painting was not always feasible due to her full time and busy practice as an Ophthalmologist in Hingham, MA and teaching obligations at Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, she endeavored to learn how to take better photographs for reference.

Maida studied photography at the New England School of Photography and while there, discovered the beauty and the challenge of black and white silver gelatin printing. For several years, she studied under Nick Johnson, trying to master the Zone System of shooting and developing Black and White Fine Art Photography promulgated by Ansel Adams. Her works have been exhibited locally in the South Shore, at Boston City Hall and Logan International Airport. She has also been exhibited in Singapore and the Philippines.