Bristol Sadhu: Reveries of an Opti-Mystic Artist, Awakened in Dreaming: Volume 1: 1

About Vincent Rymer

I lived and was schooled in Hull qualifying as a physical educationalist and later studying Art to MA level. My teaching career started in London and went via Hull to Penzance in Cornwall where I led an Arts faculty and concluded as Head of Art/Technology. I was also Art Advisor to Cornwall County Council. I have travelled extensively; cycling around Europe (5000+ miles in three months) worked on a Kibbutz in Israel and undertook the 'hippie trail' overland to Nepal as well as embarking on numerous South East Asian journeys. I was previously married fathering two children. After two years separation I bought a farm jointly with my subsequent partner and over fours years created habitats for wildlife. I then moved to Bath alternating between there and Andalucia Spain. This was followed by a period of serial monogamy and polyamory as I explored tantra. I bought a van and lived in it on Dartmoor in Devon for a year painting in a barn studio. Following a serious septicaemia infection which hospitalised me I moved into Bowden House Community Totnes. During the two years there I learnt and practised deep tissue sensual and tantric massage. Since arriving in Bristol four years ago I have written daily. I am inspired by Buddhist Zen and Taoist philosophy and practice. I continue to paint and have exhibited for over 25 years and my work is in private collections throughout the UK California Japan and Denmark. Currently I paint in a studio in central Bristol and follow my other passions: playing guitar dancing to trance music and table tennis!