Arthur K. Maderson was born in 1942, in London. He studied Fine Art from 1959 to 1963 at Camberwell School of Art, London, where in 1963 he won the Anna Berry Award, in open competition with final year graduates from all leading Art schools in England. Arthur has exhibited at the Royal Academy, The Royal West of England Academy (where in 1987 he won the Cornellisen Award) and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin (winning the Abbey Studio Award for the most distinguished painting in 1993). He has represented Ireland in a number of prestigious shows. “For me painting is essentially a mysterious process, hovering strangely between a thought and a thing. A journey into the unknown which happens when 3 elements combine, first sensor information, second the painter’s response to the initial information, and lastly the organisational demands of the picture itself, as a separate independent entity. The final arrangement of the pigment is simply telling evidence of the intensity and delicacy of this process."