What do you like doing in your spare time? promescent in delhi An affable and courteous 65-year-old, with shaggy silver thatch and neatly trimmed beard, Turpin is an intriguing mixture of shyness and that aura of – how shall I put it? – “experience” you tend to get with people who came of age in the Sixties. He seems perfectly at home in this sleepily affluent corner of the South East. But if you were to discover he was once a member of, say, Deep Purple, you wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. Indeed, while he has long been established as one of Britain’s leading horticultural artists, he began his artistic career as an abstract painter and film-maker and only stumbled on his principal subject through a chance visit to Sissinghurst in 1981.
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