Paintings Exhibition of Malta and Venice by Martin Scicluna

by Gozo News · April 28, 2025

Din l-Art Helwa, the National Trust for Malta, is hosting an exhibition of paintings of Malta and Venice, by its former president Martin Scicluna.

The Exhibition Hall at 10 Old Bakery Street in Valletta, corner with Melita Street, will display 36 water-colour paintings and 32 acrylic on board paintings, and will be open every day from 10am to 4pm. Entrance is free and the exhibition runs from the 29th of April till the 3rd of May.

Proceeds from the sale, as with his previous exhibition held at Din l-Art Helwa in 2023, will mainly go to the non-profit organisation, along with St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral.

Mr Scicluna is the last surviving member of the ‘Six Soldier Artists’ who is still painting. The Soldier Artists exhibited in Malta at three highly successful exhibitions in aid of charities in 2000, 2003 and 2006.

Scicluna was born in 1935. He was educated at St Edward’s College, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Army Staff College Camberley and the Royal College of Defence Studies. He served in the Royal Malta Artillery from 1956 until 1964, transferring to the Royal Artillery in 1965 after completion of the Army Staff College course.

He left the Army in 1973 and won a place at the Ministry of Defence as a Direct Entry Principal where he served in various policy secretariats advising Ministers. Scicluna also served on secondment to the Foreign Office as a member of the United Kingdom Delegation to NATO until November 1995, retiring in the rank of Assistant Under Secretary of State.

The NGO said that Paul Scicluna served Din l-Art Helwa faithfully in several incarnations from 1996 on his return to Malta, culminating with his election as Executive President from 2001 to 2005 and Vice-President from 2005 to 2013. He was elected Honorary Life Council member in 2014.

Mr Scicluna studied art at St Edward’s College under English art master Mr Kealy in 1943. He retained a keen interest thereafter in painting in water-colour and, later, oils, honing his techniques over the years until he settled in recent years on painting in acrylic on board and water-colour.