[1] He went on to Copenhagen to study in the studio of Kurt Harald Isenstein, where his classicist style and leanings began to develop.

In 1953–1954 he created the stylised American eagle perched upon a bronze sphere surmounting the octagonal tapered column of the Australian–American Memorial in Canberra.

[7] Beadle's sculptural work drew upon influences from the Hallstatt Culture of the early Iron Age, West African Ashanti bronzes and combined these with references to life in modern New Zealand.

[8] According to art historian Mark Stocker, Beadle was "New Zealand's foremost internationally recognised medal maker.

[10][11][12] University of Auckland offers the Paul Beadle Scholarship[13] annually for postgraduate students at Elam School of Art.