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While on holiday in Jamaica some years ago, we were staying in a gated hotel complex but had excursions tp plantations and it was on one such outing that I was able to capture this fritillary, a larger and more exotic variety than we find at home in the UK. What made this a more special experience was the beautiful flower on which it was indulging itself: a flower with little flowers growing from it!

I was born a Manxman - a native of the Isle of Man in the centre of the British Isles - and my heritage from there sometimes brings a Celtic element to my work. However, another side of my personality has often been expressed in my acrylic painting and photography in a more extraverted, Mediterranean way. This has no doubt been influenced by the fact that I have travelled through Europe and elsewhere in the past, but I have come to look for inspiration nearer to my home in recent years in a beautiful part of the north of England. My Christian faith underlies what I do in art as in the rest of my life. I am a retired clinical psychologist and am married with children and grandchildren. I have no formal artistic qualifications but am...