Bobby Osborne Denies Prison and Alien Abduction Rumours
Zennor
June 11, 2023
An artist formerly resident in Chiswick is planning a return to the area and is keen to dispel misinformed rumours as to the reasons for his absence.
Bobby Osborne will be a star attraction at the Chiswick Book Festival this September where he will tell you about his newly published book Zennor Spirit of Place.
This explores the personal and political dramas which followed the arrival of the writer D.H. Lawrence, who Mr Osborne regards as disreputable, and his German wife Frieda von Richthofen in the ancient village of Zennor during the First World War.
The wild landscape and remote cottages around Zennor became host to scores of infamous artists, poets, eccentrics and occultists who lived, loved and wreaked havoc in this area which some regard as being akin to a mystical realm. Throughout the 20th century sublime art was created amid a backdrop of witchcraft, scandalous sexual intrigue, black magic rituals and Nazi spy rings.
As well as the book, a documentary on the subject has been made which is being screened in festivals all over Europe this summer.
The author contacted us to say, “If you would care to tell all my friends and fans in Chiswick it would be great as they think I have been abducted by aliens or put in prison. In reality I have been working hard.”
Copies of the ‘sensational and true’ story can be obtained here.
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