Ben Birdsall
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Ben Birdsall was born in West Yorkshire, England, in 1967, and educated at Sedbergh School and Durham University. After graduating he took up various jobs including road sweeper, bingo caller and courier, spending part of each year since childhood in his mother’s native West of Ireland where he developed an interest for landscape painting, moving to Italy in 1992 to continue his pursuit of the art. Always writing, his play ‘Staggart Lane’ was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1987 and in 1995 his novel ‘Blue Charm’ was published by Blackstaff Press, Belfast, shortlisted for the Authors’ Club. of Great Britain Best First Novel Award. In 2005 his short screenplay ‘Galatea’ was filmed in Tuscany by Australian artist, Jamie Boyd. Birdsall has exhibited paintings in Italy, Ireland, England and Switzerland, where he lives now with his wife and daughter.
Blue Charm When John Davey inherits a small farm in remote Connemara he finds himself the centre of attraction with the locals as he battles to transform teh ramshackle buildings into an artists' retreat. But as he is drawn into the gossip, comedies and tragedies of his neighbours' lives, he becomes part of a world where 'thoughts have no pattern'. Soon he discovers that there's more fun in imbibing 'mountain tay', fishing for trout with 'Blue Charms' and watching the 'blue charm' of the evening light, and that 'here it is not difficult to pass whole days wit little achievement'. Blackstaff Press.
Tuscany by Vespa 'The idea is simple yet brilliant: bring together two Italian legends - Tuscany and the Vespa -and weave one's way through hillsides, little towns of art, the Chianti area's olive groves, Tyrrhenian beaches, farms in Maremma and medieval villages, all at a leisurely pace, making short stops here and there.'Acqua Panna [1]
Paintings from Tuscany by Vespa viewable on the following site: Art.birdsalls [2]
