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A Photo-Fit Portrait of Fletcher Christian (above) Daily Telegraph 12th January 1994
Created on Merseyside's Police Computer
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". . . . . January 11th 1994, Merseyside Police HQ, filmed by the BBC Look North West Team presented by Alan Uri, did DC Royle help me feed a selection of my sketched images of Fletcher’s ancestors into the computer. These images along with the living spirit of his offspring, and within minutes a photo-fit of what Fletcher Christian may have looked like emerged. I had a deep sense of satisfaction at seeing this face wondering whether it a true simile from this man whose footsteps I had lately trodden in twelve thousand miles away. I asked forgiveness from him and the universe if this picture looked nothing like him. And whether he did or didn’t resemble this computer-assisted portrait of him, would he pardon me bestowing him the chief role in this otherwise landscape- painting-project I wondered. I hoped he would be delighted. . . . . . .
. . . . . The exhibition would be shown in Workington, then move to Keswick then to Cockermouth. The travelling exhibition entitled A Portrait of Fletcher Christian and Pitcairn Island Landscapes as thought, and it begin its tour in on May 10th. Border TV filmed the exhibition’s opening- ceremony. BBC Radio Cumbria did an interview too; Fletcher once a local lad after all, an eighteenth century one. Many people now shared the vision of this arts- project – that must be a success."