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Bob Williamson began his working life in Canada by spending ten summers as a prospector and surveyor in the Arctic and Northern Quebec looking for gold and uranium. At the tender age of sixteen he spent three months in a Cuban gold mine on the Isle of Pines where, armed with a box of giant band-aids was also the camp doctor and store-keeper for 120 miners. In 1956 he went to Europe, bought a 23’ sloop in Hamburg and sailed her to the Mediterranean. In Cannes, where he had arrived with £1, he met Picasso and worked for In 1970 he went freelance again with his own studio which he ran for 24 years. During this time, he also ran design workshops in Prague, Sao Paolo, twice in Shanghai Most of his graphics, feature film titling, corporate and packaging design clients were London based but he also worked for others in Cape Town, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, He’s had an exhibition of mosaics, and a drawing exhibition at the Woodstock Gallery, both in London, and has eight books and eight new typefaces published. Now, after sailing his 74’ square-rigged topsail schooner “St. Peter” from Russia to the Caribbean, he’s settled down in English Harbour, Antigua. The paintings in the one-man show in Antigua were done with a pallet of five tins of Lee Wind household emulsion paint: black, white, and the three primaries. For occupational therapy he also writes nonsense and cartoons for various Caribbean and London papers and several sailing magazines. Bob’s last book called “BUNK”, a collection of published short stories His family can be traced through French, Irish and British nobility back to Robert the Bald, William the Conqueror, Charlemagne and Arnulf, Bishop of Metz who died some say of drink, in AD 643. He is now the fourth King of Redonda, an island kingdom which is 127 years old. Check out thekingdomofredonda.com). The Kingdom has its own Airforce (RRAF), Navy (RRN) and Yacht Club (RRYC). The Royal Yacht “St. Peter” has been in all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. |
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All artwork © Bob Williamson 1999.