About

Alan Halliday

Alan Halliday trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art and was awarded a DPhil from Oxford University in 1982. Since then, he has been a full-time artist, specialising in paintings of performers and performances. In 2008, he moved to France where he lives and works as an artist and writer with a great interest in film.

Books

  • The Prelude

    At Oxford University in the early 1970s, James D'Arblay was a talented and good-looking young man with a reputation for unreliability. A compulsive actor and musician and a man of considerable physical charm, D'Arblay is drawn towards the romantic life and the flamboyant poetry of Lord Byron.   " class="product_extract"> At Oxford University in the early 1970s, James D'Arblay was a talented and good-looking young man with a reputation for unreliability. A compulsive actor and musician and a man of considerable physical charm, D'Arblay is drawn towards the romantic life and the flamboyant poetry of Lord Byron.

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  • Letting Go

    Alan Halliday plunges the reader into a potent cocktail of Proust, sex, ‎drugs, haute couture, Pop Art, theatre, opera, ballet and photography. 

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  • Tante Brutus

    The main protagonist comes on stage immediately in the opening lines... Ana Anderssen, Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. The tug-of-war continues in France, at Champigny-sur-Veude, a village in Indre-et-Loire,some fifty kilometres from Tours.

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