Oil painting -> List of Painters ->Conroy Maddox

Early Days:

   Conroy Maddox was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, and discovered surrealism in 1935, spending the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings, collages, photographs, objects and texts. Inspired by artists such as Max Ernst, Oscar Domínguez and Salvador Dalí, he rejected academic painting in favour oftechniques that expressed the surrealistic spirit of rebellion. Maddox officially joined the British Surrealist Group in 1938.

Personal Details Name Conroy Maddox Place of Birth Ledbury, Herefordshire Date of Birth 27 December 1912 Date of Death 14 January 2005 (aged 92) Field Painting Nationality English Movement Surrealism

Career:

    His creations soon began not only to challenge the conventional view of reality, but also to push pictorial expression to the limits of consciousness. He was even implicated in both scandal and controversy when, during World War II, Scotland Yard suspected him of fifth columnist sabotage and mounted a surprise raid to seize works thought to contain coded messages to the enemy.

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