WHYTE'S EXCEPTIONAL IRISH ART MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2020

18 Arthur K. Maderson (b.1942) Born in 1942 in London, Arthur Maderson studied at the Camberwell School of Art from 1959-1963. In 1963 he won the Anna Berry Award in open competition with all final year art graduates. Maderson is primarily concerned with the depiction of light - a similar preoccupation of the nineteenth century French Impressionists. He has adopted some of the same techniques as the Impressionists, using broken brush strokes of thickly applied paint and vibrant juxtapositions of colour. He has tended to concentrate on one particular thematic series at a time, the most notable being the Lismore River series and Tallow Horse Fair series. In 1987, he was awarded the Cornelissen Award for the ‘Most Distinguished Painting’ from the Royal West of England Academy. In 1993, he won the Royal Hibernian Academy Abbey Stained Glass Studio Award for the most distinguished picture. He has subsequently represented Ireland in a number of prestigious shows. He was also a regular exhibitor with the Royal Academy in London. Maderson was included in a list of 17 of the world’s most successful and popular figurative painters in the book Modern Oil Impressionists by Ron Hanson. Whilst he paints tirelessly, he rarely exhibits his work nowadays, but his paintings are keenly competed for in the Irish and British auction rooms. His working life is now shared between The Blackwater Valley in County Waterford and the mountainous Cévennes region in the south of France.