Celebrating Hydra Artist & Writer Michael Lawrence

The people of Hydra and friends and relatives from all over the world gathered earlier this month to pay tribute to artist and writer Michael Lawrence. Michael, a long-term island resident, died in November 2021. It was a joy tinged with sadness to be able to attend this wonderful tribute, beautifully presented by the Historical Archives Museum, Hydra, supported by Michael's sister Toni Lawrence. He would have have loved it so much. The exhibition is on until 31 July 2024. 

 

Michael's memoir Tripping with Jim Morrison & Other Friends, with an introduction by Timothy Leary, is available to order from all good bookstores worldwide and online. 

 

[Photo, group with Michael portrait: Susanna Evelyn]

'You have poems inside your head and you have learned to explode them with firecracker tubes of paint.' Ray Bradbury

 

To be an artist alone in the world dependent upon one's own art to provide a living is almost the most difficult or the most providential path anyone can choose. Thus Tripping With Jim Morrison & Other Friends is Michael Lawrence's own jaunty Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

 

The intrepid ex-pat artist's Magical Mystery Tour odyssey travels from Hollywood to Roman ruins via foggy London town, the Spaghetti-Western movie studios of Madrid, Gaudi's Barcelona, Afghanistan, New York and L.A.

 

'The guys from your UCLA days sent me your way, claiming your memories and stories of Jim are among the most important.' Jerry Hopkins (Co-author of the Jim Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive)

 

'I won’t try to compete with you in the word department except to say how much I enjoy reading yours.' Roy Lichtenstein

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tripping-Jim-Morrison-Other-Friends-ebook/dp/B01I409A2Q

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