(oil on canvas 10”x 12”)
I met Kelley on the Atlantic paradise of Neptune Beach, Florida, when she attended a poetry gig at which I was reading some of my work. Subsequently we met a number of times during the nightmarish and challenging three months I was there in 2010 being hoodwinked into having extremely damaging proton beam radiotherapy as a pawn in an international clival cordoma big money ‘research’ programme for my brain cancer. She inspired several poems, and three portraits which I did from memory when I returned to England.