Dr. Arshed Maqbool, a medical doctor by profession born in 1959 who found inspiration of artistic forms in the human anatomy, sums up his works in passionate structure and rendering of the final canvas.

His father before him started Pakistan's oldest publishing house (Maqbool Academy) and has been publishing serious fiction and adult novels since 1954.

After graduating from medical college, Dr. Maqbool founded Pakistan's most prominent, and the only award-winning children's book publishing house (Maqbool Books) in 1989. The inspiration behind this was incorporating art and impeccable illustrations in children's books and foster children's literature in Pakistan in an artistic way.


He recently illustrated his first children's book (The Greedy Sons) in oil. This book has since become a part of an internationally bestselling series of children's books known as 'Quran Stories'. Throughout his career Dr. Maqbool has been an ardent and relentless traveler who has travelled over the world for artistic inspiration. He has a remarkably quick eye for fine aesthetics and a lust for travel which later sowed seeds of his art. In the past two decades he travelled through more than 30 countries, for artistic inspiration, including some of the most renowned in possessing artistic treasures, namely Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Great Britain, Netherlands, Czech Republic, India, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and so on.