MAURICE C. WILKS ARHA RUA (1910 - 1984) West of Ireland landscape with figure on a road way Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 68cm (20 x 27) Signed Born in Belfast in 1911, he educated at the Malone Public School while also attending night classes at the Belfast College of Art. While attending college he was awarded the Dunville Scholarship allowing him to attend day classes. After college, Wilks resided in Cushendun, in the Glens of Antrim. Wilks’s early landscapes were mainly of the Irish northern and western counties including Donegal, Antrim and Kerry. He was inspired by the Irish landscapes of James Humbert Craig. He exhibited a t the RHA and RUA, both organisations he is now a member of and his paintings are held in Ulster Museum and Limerick City Art Gallery.