Depth Perception

<p>Lucky indeed is the man who can follow his passions contemporary Scottish artist Robert McBride tells an interviewer but if he doesn't go full-tilt at them he's failing in life.</p><p>Robert's main passions are oil painting and swimming. He excels at both. But either might turn his life upside down.</p><p>DEPTH PERCEPTION set in Edinburgh Oxford London Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands takes you into the life the art the adventures and the imagination of a remarkable Scottish painter.</p><p>Who else but Robert McBride would announce at age 6 he'd become a great artist and be correct? Who else would swim naked in the Thames? Use art to tame a school bully? Leap off a train to court a beautiful stranger? Throw paint at a nobleman's bodyguards? Recite poetry to a mouse? Commune with the Loch Ness monster? Venture too close to a churning whirlpool? Dare to hide secrets and scandals in his paintings?</p><p>Impulsive and eccentric Robert will lead you from North Sea oil platforms to Buckingham Palace from historic Oxford colleges to the world's third-largest whirlpool from lively Scottish country dances to the raging storms of the Atlantic.</p><p>Among the array of intriguing characters are art-loving policemen a claustrophobic duke an operatic florist an avaricious landlord and the witty eclectics known as the Boist'rous Oysters.</p><p>You'll recognize luminaries like George Bernard Shaw Robert Burns Shakespeare Rembrandt Robert Louis Stevenson George Orwell and Mary Queen of Scots.</p><p>But who is the mysterious anonymous and unseen critic who stalks Robert McBride from town to town throughout Great Britain?</p><p>And why at the peak of Robert's success does he become Chalky Bob a grubby chalk artist humbling himself on dirty city sidewalks?</p><p>And what is the one simple yet highly-significant question Robert asks all those who pose for his portraits? It's a question which few of us dare to confront. Will you decide to answer it?</p><p>Combining adventure humor romance and suspense - and rich with observations about life and art - DEPTH PERCEPTION is a thoughtful lyrical and often exhilarating exploration of the world of oil painting and of one man's fascinating creative journey.</p>