Born: South London

Has been/is variously:

A librarian; insurance broker; stage manager; lighting designer; sound engineer; sun-spot operator; fired by Marlene Dietrich; husband (twice); writer; reporter; broadcaster; sub-editor; night-editor; editor; divorcee; cancer survivor; lover; shepherd; publisher; father (twice); market trader; shop keeper; burgled (six times); musician; union official; photographer; widower; TV extra; made redundant (twice); mature student; scared of heights; software designer.

Education:Yes

Acknowledges the influence of:

Bob Dylan; Picasso; Miles Davis; David Hockney; Cezanne; Philip Larkin; Anji; Man Ray; Bill Brandt; alcohol; Edward Weston; lust; Brad Winterton; TS Eliot; Dylan Thomas; fear; D H Lawrence; Paul Delvaux; Beatrice & Sidney Dyer.

Everything here is true, however some truths are more important than others.

Jay Dyer BA(hons) LBIPP