Coming Soon. 'The Artist as an Old Man (Self Portrait)'

 

The artist returns to Auckland 

After twenty years in London an internationally famous and somewhat notorious New Zealand artist, known only as ‘Julius’, returns home when his life falls apart as a result of fraud, death and depression. The Artist as an Old Man (Self Portrait) is a personal hour-by-hour journal of the day of the artist’s first New Zealand exhibition.

Having always been busy, in London and around the world, and then having spent a year working on his New Zealand exhibition, the restless artist — eccentric, irritable and ageing — suddenly has nothing to do until the exhibition’s evening opening. For the first time in years he has time to think. And worry. And so we follow him and his random and sometimes angry and unreasonable thoughts, including his lingering doubts about his own work, through the long day.

Having experienced financial relief before the exhibition, an unpleasant encounter at the exhibition, and sadness after it, he returns home at the end of the day ready to escape to his new life, alone and lonely, in Dunedin. 

The Artist as an Old Man (Self Portrait) will be available soon from my website and from Amazon and Kindle.