Based in Oxford, England and the Luberon Valley, Provence orde is an international art historian, lecturer, author, playright, poet, painter and inventor. He is an expert on John Piper and on the Writings of Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. He is a published author of more than seventeen books and the publications range from African Art and Artists, to John Piper and “Art, An Adaptive function”. He has made a number of “Conversations” including with Henry Moore and Professor Sir Richard Sorabji. His uncompleted doctoral thesis was on the writings of Daniel Henry Kahnweiler (he is currently working on a book on Kahnweiler’s writings) and his poem Ndilapa Nkosi was described by the late Samuel Beckett as a “moving feat”. More recently Orde has focused on analysis of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ with special focus on traditional depictions of Shylock compared to the original text. He has been invited speak on this topic at number Shakespeare conferences worldwide. The culmination of this is two works ‘The Rialto Dialogues’ and ‘Shylock the Magnificent’, both of which are scheduled to be published in 2019.
