Arthur Weaver
Artist

Arthur Weaver was born in 1918 in North London. He spent all his school years in London, attending the Hazelwood Lane School and followed this with two years at the Hornsey School of Art in London, under the instruction of John c. Moody, R.I., Norman James and Russell Reeve.

During the war years, 1939-46, Weaver spent his time farming in Herefordshire, a county on the borders of Wales and Monmouthshire. At the end of the war he returned to London and spent a whole year portrait painting and doing some theatrical scene painting.

In 1952 Weaver decided that Wales was where he wanted to be and took a post as Art Teacher in an Adult Education School in South Wales. In the same year he married a Welch girl and settled in Monmouthshire, where he devoted all his time to painting.

In his pictures he not only captures the sunshine and shadow, but also gives us the whole feeling of the day. You can almost feel the wind blowing and watch the clouds moving slowly overhead. His subjects have included diamond mines, oil well, cattle ranches and, of course, golf courses.