DEAL TODAY - the magazine and website for Deal, Kent

Local People

Profiles of some of the interesting personalities
living and working in this part of Kent.

Harold Chapman

Looking through a glass darkly

Harold Chapman arrives at his 80th year with his reputation as a photographer of the first rank stronger than ever. DEAL TODAY pays homage to the enigmatic Mr Chapman, an extraordinary man who found world wide fame peering through a glass (lens) darkly.    read more....

Frances Fyfield
Frances Fyfield in conversation with Eve Tan Gee

Deal-based author Frances Fyfield has acquired the literary gravitas of the two British "Queens of Crime", mesdames Rendell and James. Fyfield is now regularly identified as part of a formidable triumvirate, and books such as Staring at the Light and Without Consent have mined the same vein of psychological acuity and dark menace as her more famous fellow authors.   read more....

Elizabeth Douglas Luckhurst
Portrait of an artist: Elizabeth Douglas Luckhurst
Born in Walmer , Elizabeth Luckhurst began drawing as a young girl and later attended Art College in Canterbury. Returning home after a period of voluntary work in India and Nepal, Elizabeth married and started a family. A chance meeting with international art dealer Angus Neill and an introduction to novelist and keen art collector Frances Fyfield persuaded Elizabeth to adopt a more professional approach by exhibiting and selling her work.   read more....
 
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