Beacon

Portrait of my Professor at the university who told me, ‘You are a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia, misogyny and racism in much of the democratic world’. ‘I accept your analysis’, I replied. Oil on canvas.
About the Artist
Michael Mcmanus
I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…
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