George Campbell, RHA(1917 – 79) Born in Arklow, Campbell was well known for his Landscapes and Still life painting. The son of Gretta Bowan a highly respected Irish artist. He was virtually self-taught and began painting in 1941 after the bombing of Belfast. In 1944 he and his brother Arthur held their first exhibition at the Mol Gallery, Belfast. He also exhibited in the 1940s with Gerard Dillon in John Lamb's Gallery Portadown. The pair continued to paint together through out his career. In 1951 Campbell went to Spain and the visit had such a profound effect on him and his art that he continued to visit Spain for the rest of his life. In 1946 he first showed with the Waddington Galleries, Dublin, thus beginning a long-standing and fruitful relationship with the art dealer Victor Waddington. He also exhibited with the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast and Dublin, and at the RHA, the IELA, the Oireachtas, and the WCSI. One-man exhibitions were also sponsored by the Northern Irish Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in 1949, 1952 and 1960, and by CEMA's successor, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1966 and 1972. His work is represented in virtually every major public collection throughout the country, as well as in his second adopted home, in Malaga, where a street is named after him.