The Ambassadors Painting

Clive Wilkins is a fine art painter and has exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has also exhibited at the Royal Academy and in private galleries in Cork Street, London – including a one-man show in 2007. His work can be found in public and private collections. Wilkins has produced portraits of Sir Howard Hodgkin and Sir Peter Blake amongst others and has been presented publicly to HRH Princess Royal. He is currently Artist in Residence in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. His writing and paintings have been in print on numerous occasions, most notably in his published work 'The Creatures in the Night', a story written and lavishly illustrated by Wilkins in 2008. He is the author of 'The Moustachio Quartet', a series of four novels~ 'Caruso Maelstrom', 'Count Zapik', 'Xavier Mannikin' and 'Eissenstrom', as well as 'The Lost Library of Miraculous Metaphors & other short stories' (as of June 2021). The novels explore imagination and question consciousness and reality, amidst the miasma of ‘being’. Wilkins is a performer and magician and particularly interested in the nature of cognitive illusion and the psychology of perception. He has been appointed Visiting Professors at Nanjing Institute of Technology and Beijing University of Language and Culture. He has also been appointed Honorary Professors at Hangzhou Diangi University. He currently lives in the heart of England. In his spare time, he is a teacher, flautist, origamist, tangramist and tango dancer. For more information please refer to the entry for 'Clive WILKINS' on Wikipedia.