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Watercolour. A spooky image that came to me in my sleep last night. He said he was the Bishop of Bath and Wells in the 1400s and that unless I stopped challenging the authority of the church he'd give me the red hot poker treatment like he'd done to my ancestor. Up yours too I said, awoke and immediately went into a state of surrealist automatism and produced this sketch.
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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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