Born in 1944 Maxwell Wilks started his studies in drawing at the National Gallery School in Victoria under John Brack and Ian Armstrong.
He also studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in commercial design and oil painting with artist Shirley Bourne.
His first exhibition was in 1967 and he has since held over 30 exhibitions in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.
He exhibited in 1973 with the Seven Painters Group in Melbourne and in Adelaide in 1976 & 77.
In 1982, Wilks won the Alice Bale Travel scholarship, and for eight months he travelled throughout England and Europe visiting galleries, painting, and drawing regularly.
Also in 1982 Wilks began painting full time,Wilks main influences are the French Impressionists like Monet, Pissarro, Manet, and Sisley.
He is also a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, a fellow of the Victoria Artist Society and a member of the Old Watercolor Society (AUS Branch).
He is represented in many collections in Australia and abroad.
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