I regard myself as being equally a painter and a writer. What I am currently writing is an autobiography with most of it already written. It stands at some 7 million words encompassing all that I have ever written, both novels and poetry. By the end of it I am hoping that it will portray my complete attitude to life in all its colour and complexity. It is an attempt to make the whole man come alive in my complete individualism. And the attitude of Individualism is conveyed to the reader, covering all aspects of it such as my Pantheism in religion, my Wessex Regionalism within a framework of World Government, where my politics are concerned, and my personal efforts to promote Polygamy within a Polymorphous Society, when it comes to family morality.

As far as my painting is concerned, my work derives from the Neo-Expressionist school. I admire strong colour and some degree of distortion with caricature. But I also collect paintings that have been done by contemporary West Country artists, in order to give a savour of how our local Wessex individualism might gradually be coming into shape. There are some examples of the work by these artists that I am putting on show here in this exhibition.

Quite apart from my appreciation of colour, form and atmosphere within a painting, I also enjoy the whisper of some literary element that invokes the imaginative perception of some story that might be involved within the pictorial telling of any particular tale. That is the character within which my own murals at Longleat might be described, although the sculptural and textural elements become especially important in those.

 

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