I am a creative, an academic, a theologian and a philosopher. To know me is a little like peeling an onion...I have many layers and it may take you some time to get to know the depth of my personality.

I was first paid to sing when I was just 14 years old. Had my first exhibition of my paintings and took commissions from when I was 16. Studied in a seminary, then did medical science. My views were respected to the extent that I got to work alongside famous names and nobel prize winners. Alongside medicine I continued to sing, continued to paint, wrote a bit of poetry, had a lot of people ask me to write a book about my extraordinary life and eventually picked up a camera. Many years on I left academia and medicine to become a full time artist and a professional photographer. I have pictures ranked on the highest world stage and have colleagues across the globe but still in myself I am the onion of many layers. Love didn't come easily and thus for 30 years I gave back to society, working with charities and the less fortunate. I watched my parents and several friends die. 

3 years ago I met the love of my life, the onion was stripped bare and at 48yrs young I got married for the first time. I now live in a beautiful Georgian house in North Yorkshire, UK.

I still paint, have exhibitions, pray and sing. I am myself. I am happy.

John Lyons 16