About
Studio Publications
I began my journey into self-publishing sixty years ago when I sold my prints door to door in England. The price tag was ten shillings and within a week I had sold a thousand copies. In the 1980's I hawked my book Virgin Island Sketches from boat to boat in the Caribbean. By these means - person to person, face to face - the book sold over 14,000 copies.
Although selling eBooks online lacks the personal touch, it enables my work to reach a worldwide market from my small island in the Caribbean - just as my blog posts are followed by thousands of artists and art students in over eighty countries.
Studio Publications is virtually a one-man band. I am publisher, author, artist and general factotum rolled into one. Computer mastery, an essential requirement for E-publishing, is beyond my octarian dyslexic capabilities, but fortunately my son helps me with that.
In the days of hard copies, I had to contend with gremlins that infiltrate printers ink. But the gremlins that frustrate the conversion of Word Documents to EPUB are all the more troublesome. We fight them off one page and they come back on the next. The final appearance of an ebook in EPUB format, depends on user preferences and the receiving device. The recipient can alter fonts, text colour and line spacing at will, and hence enter into the creative process. The books that contain illustrations of my paintings are in PDF format to ensure precise layout and quality reproduction.
The casebound deluxe 1st edition has decorative endpapers, reproductions of the artist’s watercolours and dust jacket.
Large Format 12.5" x 9.5". 96 pages. RRP US$49.00
Available as an eBook from Studio Publications
Over fifty years have past since I made the voyage that is the subject of this book. The manuscript that began as an up to the minute guide, is now an historical document. Like the canals, it is a miracle that it has survived. The manuscript twice crossed the Atlantic aboard small sailing boats, survived storms at sea and two major hurricanes. During those intervening years the inland waterways of Ireland developed beyond belief. What was then abandoned is now restored, and the navigations upon which we once sailed in solitude are now popular cruising grounds.
154 pages.
Available as an eBook from Studio Publications.
The author has spent a lifetime painting and sculpting the female nude
and this book gives a rare insight into his work and the thought processes
involved, from both the artist’s and model’s view point. By way of
hundreds of paintings and scores of sculptures in his series Daughters of the
Caribbean Sun, many of which are illustrated in the book, the artist pays
homage to the natural beauty of the Afro-Caribbean woman. He gives
credit to the model’s essential contribution to the creative process and in
turn his models speak of the benefits they have derived from modelling for his
work. The notes express the artist’s own personal approach to depicting
the nude. They are not meant as a course of instruction or an academic thesis.
As with his paintings, they were jotted in the heat of the moment and suggest
rather than define.
The book contains over 100 high-definition colour illustrations of the artist’s work.
Available as an eBook from Studio Publications.
Roger
Burnett’s townscape sketches begin with his native town of Halifax in the West
Riding of Yorkshire and end with the towns and villages of his adopted
Caribbean. Between the two he takes a brief sojourn to Portugal and revisits
Birmingham’s restored canal-scape. The book ends with a series of essays that
express the author’s concern about the present trend in Caribbean townscapes.
Available as an eBook from Studio Publications.
The book is my personal account
of parental alienation. There are millions of similar cases worldwide, but mine
has the distinction of being one of the worst. My story begins on an island in
the Caribbean forty years ago and continues up to the present. My fight for the
right of my children to have access to their father was fought under the most
difficult circumstances. Other than to attend court hearings, I was for the
most part forbidden to set foot on the island that was their home, and which
had previously been my home. By fighting for a basic human right, I was deemed
an undesirable person and a menace to the public good. For a period of five years,
I had to wage my campaign from the cabin of a small boat while sailing from
island to island. The term parental alienation had only just
been coined when my problems began. There were no books on the subject and no
guidance for those expected to advise and judge. My story is taken from real life.
To have presented my account in any other form would have defeated its
objective: that being to forewarn other parents firsthand of the minefield that
they may unwittingly step into.
On a shelf in my studio on the
Caribbean Island of Dominica is a portfolio marked “Calderdale”. The portfolio
contains paintings of the towns, villages and countryside of my youth; places
far removed from my adopted homeland in the tropics. But on occasional visits home I began to see
what had once been familiar scenes with a fresh vision. The
book ends with closuring notes about the creative process.
Available as an eBook from Studio Publications
Available as an eBook from Studio Publications
