Arthur completed a five year apprenticeship in 1971 with a London based traditional signwriting and display company.

Having attended various colleges during that period including Goldsmiths for Gold and Silver Gilding and South London College of Printing where he qualified as a Silk Screen Printer.

During those five years' he applied his skills to many interesting and exciting projects including: Gilding of the Scales of Justice on top of the Old Bailey, signwriting for The British Grand Prix and the Le Man 24 hr Race, The Grand National at Aintree and the Derby at Epsom. This was before the onset of computer generated images and graphics when everything was painted by hand.

Arthur then moved to Cliftonville in Kent and worked freelance in the rapidly expanding world of the Supermarket and retail display where again, using his traditional skills he created display's and posters for five Tesco stores based in and around the Thanet and Canterbury areas of Kent.

He then moved to Rossendale in Lancashire went into to sports stadia work where he managed the northern area of one of the UK’s Largest sports stadia advertising companies. He serviced such venues as: Manchester United, Liverpool, Newcastle, West Bromwich Albion, Leeds United plus many more first and second division football league Clubs. Other projects included Headingley, Old Trafford and Trent Bridge Test and county cricket grounds, Donington Park and Silverstone Grand Prix Racing Circuits as well as many leading Racecourses across the Country.

After nine years Arthur returned to the South of England and became a partner in a London Based company where his traditional skills were used to create displays for London theatres including The Royal Opera House, The Royal Festival Hall and Hayward Gallery.

For the last six years, Arthur has been running a West Sussex based Display and large format Digital company with his youngest son Greg. Following the death of his wife Jacky in 2007 he decided to open The Chicken Legs Gallery in her Memory and concentrate on his painting skills. Since 1966 Arthur came to realise that he was doing what any artist does and that is to create images using life forms, objects and, of course, imagination. He is now applying those skills to canvas and other creative media.