Robert Joyce was born in Yorkshire and studied Fine Art in Leeds, and Creative writing in Exeter (where he now lives). He works predominately as a painter but also with written material and visual images, sometimes combining both in illuminating dramas and video presentations. Examples are a film journey around his bathroom to the commentary of a voyage down the Nile . Another, a recent collaboration with Gordon Read, is a video account of a walk around the underside of Exeter to a running poetic commentary with the title A Walk in Exeter : Doodles of a Wandering Man . His solo exhibitions have been mounted in London and Poland as well as in the West Country where he often exhibits in collaboration with other artists. He is well known as a chronicler of such exhibitions – again a fusing of art and text – while he is a sought after reviewer of some of the more mind searing publications of ‘alternative’ writers. His illustrations for Gifts in Store(ISBN 0-9539889-2-9) took as their starting point some of the imagery used by large department stores to advertise their wedding services. He is the founding editor of the Poke-Eye Press and latterly the Woodward Press and aspects of his work entitled Artworks and Writing can be seen on http://robertjoyceart.wordpress.com