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NICK BANTOCK PROFILE
Education: Schooled in England. BA in Fine Art (painting).
Art: Paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and prints exhibited in shows in UK, France and North America. His works are in private collections throughout the world.
Writing: Nick has authored 25 books, 11 of which have appeared on the best seller lists, including 3 books on the NYT top ten at one time. One of his titles stayed on the NYT list for over two years. His books have been translated into 13 languages. Over 5 million sold worldwide. Recently named by Weird Tales magazine as one of the 85 all time ‘weirdest’ storytellers. He has also written articles and stories for numerous international newspapers and magazine’s.
Movies: Three films optioned (none have yet seen the light of day!) Written script outlines for two films.
Plays: Wrote the stage play based on the six Griffin and Sabine books—opened 2006.
Electronic: Won a lifetime BAFTA (British Oscar) for CD Rom Ceremony of Innocence, created with Peter Gabriel’s Real World. Ceremony of Innocence (soundtrack by Isabella Rossolini and Ben Kingsley) also won seven major awards throughout the world.
Graphics: He created artwork for over 300 book covers (including works by Roth and Updike), He’s designed theater posters for the London plays of Tom Stoppard and Alec Guiness. Illustrated media campaigns for Save the Children Fund and Volvo, articles for science, arts and entertainment magazines and album covers for music companies. Created banners for the Vancouver city streets and postcards for US state tourist boards, designed California wine labels, company logos and graphics. He has also acted as a consultant to VW in Berlin.
Public Speaking: For fifteen years he’s spoken and read to audiences throughout North America, Europe and Australia. Given keynote and motivational speeches to corporations and teachers state conferences. He has given dramatic readings on the radio and the stage and has been interviewed many hundreds of times on TV, radio.
Teaching: Taught in schools, art colleges and workshops including BA curriculum and master classes at Eselen, Hollyhock and the Omega Center.
Additional Experiences: Worked in a betting shop in the East End of London, a charitable arts trust, in a science fiction bookstore, a travel agent, a pub and a poster factory. Trained as a psychotherapist. He curated a large exhibition for a city art gallery and designed and had built a house that combined an Indonesian temple and a Russian orthodox church with an English cricket pavilion and a New Orleans bordello. He has acted as advisor in the sales of a large antiquarian book collection and has his own line in rubber stamps and stamping inks. Nick owns and runs The Forgetting Room Gallery on Salt Spring Is. BC. and is currently one of the twelve, jury members who select Canada’s Postage stamps.
Travel: Traveled extensively in Europe, North America, Australia, Indonesia and Persia. He was once stranded at Beirut airport exactly one week before it was bombed.
Sports and Games: Since childhood avidly played most games including, soccer, baseball, cricket, golf, chess, pool, cribbage and poker.
Philosophy/Politics: Left of center, between humanitarian-skeptic and Zen-surrealist.
Among the things he can’t do: Can’t swim, never ridden a horse, his spelling is dreadful and his singing voice is flat as a pancake.