Hello and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me, Alice Sheridan.

And today I am joined by a very special guest.

We have actually met in person which I'll tell you about a little bit later but we often get requests for people to come on the

podcast and I'm afraid usually the answer is no this one dropped into my inbox and I was

immediately intrigued by the idea by this person's history and the story of where he had arrived at this point.

So I am talking today with Damien Dibbon. He is an internationally acclaimed

author books that have been translated into 27 languages published in 40 countries.

He's written a series for children called The History Keepers and a previous novel called

Tomorrow. And the route that he's arrived at through starting off with design to the culmination of this new novel which has just

come out in paperback called the Color Storm which is really intriguing and I'm thoroughly enjoying. I just think this is going to be a fantastic

conversation and we're going to see where it goes. So theatre designer, actor, screenwriter and

best-selling author who also still makes things, Damian Dibbon.

Welcome to the podcast. Good morning, how are you?

Good morning, what an instruction, thank you very much.

So we're going to be talking a little bit about this book. I want people to know where this is coming from.

It first of all, can I say it has got an absolutely beautiful cover?

It is, it's's ravishing I think.

Ravishing is a great word and words like ravishing kind of come into the book quite a lot

but it is it's called the color storm and I've kind of called it it's almost like an artistic thriller set in Renaissance Venice very much identified with chief protagonist who is an artist called Barrelli called Zorzo who is

successful and yet also struggling right I should say he's he's commonly known as

Georgoni many people will know who Georgoni is. So is he a real person?

Oh yeah, yeah. He's real. Oh, I knew that lots of obviously the, you know, because Michelangelo makes appearance, Titian is in there, you know, it's really kind of set contextually and I think the insights into the different, the practice in Venice of artists at the time was lovely but also how it made this connection with modern day artists and like oh where's the next sale going to be coming from?

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