Beginner’s pluck: Artist Ted Turton

This memoir is so wonderfully entertaining and visually sumptuous that it leaves you with awe and envy

In the eighties, Ted Turton ‘ran away with the circus’, travelling the world with the eccentric Footsbarn Theatre.

Ted always knew he would be an artist.

Graduating from art college, he moved to London to work for an advertising company — but after a disagreement with his boss, and a random street attack, he left and, disillusioned with England, moved to Dublin in September, 1973.