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Before I wrote my first novel and began painting, I was a specialist attorney in the fields of copyright, entertainment and media law for more years than I care to recall. After my degree in English Language and Literature I qualified as a solicitor and left England for Hong Kong, where I trained in Intellectual Property law. I then returned to London to work in film, television and music and travelled all over the world for many years in connection with the production and distribution of films of opera, ballet, music performance and arts documentaries, more main-stream televisual fare and a few movies.
These travels took me to places where I met people and had exotic and rather bizarre adventures, some of which inspired the origin and writing of the Bonchurch novels - "The Moondish" and "The Girl I Knew" (Amazon, under nom de plume Benjamin Roberts) which, though inspired by the foreign, the occult and supernatural, are centred firmly in the Isle of Wight.
I now spend my time painting in oils. I am self-taught and now (albeit retired) as a full-time artist I churn out pictures (all of oil on canvas, mostly figurative) of portraits, landscapes, seascapes, beach scenes and still lifes, ranging in styles from English 18th Century to early 20th Century to the French post-impressionists and anything of a traditional figurative nature in between. Please note that the gallery photos are all taken with a 'phone camera and are intended only to give an impression.
For me, the process of painting each picture is an adventure in colour, form and light and shade and, when it works, is half skill and half luck, to be honest. Hence the variety in subjects!
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