Profile; Nick Owen

 Nick and Gabrielle 2011

A biographical note          

Artist, playwright, educator, coach, counsellor, poet, teacher, and student of life.

Member, The Art of Dying at The Dying Well Group.

“A Journey Through Grief,” in prose, poetry and pictures. Published in 2012

A play, "Happiness in the South," published by the UK Arts Council and performed in Brighton

Digital Art and Photography published in an American Art Magazine

Featured in "Universe d'Artistes," an on-line fine art nude magazine

Featured in "Oxford Inspires," Celebrating Oxfordshire in “Poetry and Pictures”

Created "Poetry and Pictures International" and "Poetry and Pictures England" groups hosted on Flickr

Published poet, with a book of fairy tales in verse, "Telling It Like It Is," published in 2004, and a contributor to many poetry anthologies, both UK and Internationally. Works increasingly taught in schools across Oxfordshire

Poem-Picture Artist of the Year 2006, 2007 on Flickr.

Prize winner, landscape art competition, "Outside In," Nuffield NHS Trust and OVADA

Contributor to the 75th Anniversary Sylvia Plath Oxford Symposium, and the first edition of the American based on-line Plath journal

Taught counselling and psychotherapy at the London School of Economics, Oxford University, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, The Oxford Centre for Human Relations and many other colleges.

Retired director of “The Oxford School of Psychotherapy and Counselling.”

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            I seek to promote my "poetry and Pictures Arts genre, and find people who want to buy my work or create art with me.

            I live in West Oxfordshire with my wife, Gabrielle. I have four children.