Paul Mathieu has been a student of ceramics since 1972, in Montreal, Calgary, Stoke-on-Trent in England, and San Francisco and Los Angeles, where he received a Master of Fine Art  from UCLA in 1987. He has taught ceramics since 1976 in Montreal at the college and university levels, but also in Mexico and in Paris. Since 1996, he has been teaching in Vancouver in the Faculty of Visual and Material Culture at the Emily Carr University. He has exhibited work worldwide.