A Work In Progress

203 pages. Available as .epub
 
Sixty years ago the author gave up a secure job in engineering design and declared himself as an artist on the pavements of France. His roving painting career gathered momentum in the 1970’s when, with his first wife and small daughter, he sailed a 30ft ketch from England to the Caribbean. Thereafter the islands became his adopted home. Like the Renaissance artists, necessity has made him a man of many parts: painter, sculptor, author, film maker, engineer, architect, fashion designer, boat builder, sailor and human rights activist. His studios have ranged from a shack alongside an idyllic cove in the Virgin Islands to a cavernous church assembly hall in the North of England to his present studio in the small Caribbean island of Dominica. This is the amazing story of a life that continues to be A Work In Progress.
 
The book contains over 100 images of the artist's life and work.
 
Chapter 1      Stepping out of Line
Chapter 2      Songs for my Supper
Chapter 3      In Search of the Sun
Chapter 4      Building Born Free
Chapter 5      From Triumph to Tragedy
Chapter 6      The Will to Continue
Chapter 7      Caribbean Sketches
Chapter 8      She’s Got More Balls Than Me
Chapter 9      The Horror of the Nude
Chapter 10    A Daunting Task
Chapter 11    Nature’s Changing Course Untrimmed
Chapter 12    Growing Old Disgracefully