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Author: Marcus Bicknell

Marcus Bicknell is the great-grand-nephew of Clarence Bicknell, curator of the family collection, editor of www.clarencebicknell.com and chairman of the Clarence Bicknell Association. He was awarded the 2017 Parmurelu d’Oru prize for services to culture in Bordighera. After his Masters in Physical Anthropology from Cambridge University in 1969 he was a marketing executive in the media business all his career; he managed Genesis and worked for CBS, A&M Records, television satellite operator SES Astra and the BBC. He has served on the Development Board of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and other community associations. He was born in the USA, is a British national, motor-racer, horse-rider, has lived in 7 countries, speaks German and French and lives with his family in the Chiltern Hills.
May 12, 2026May 12, 2026

Discovering Clarence

I’ve been working on Clarence, his collection, his web site, on research papers about him, the book and the film, since 1988 […]

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026

Visual Theology Symposium – Marcus’s paper

I was honoured to speak at The Visual Theology Symposium, at Southwell, Nottingham, on 9th May 2026. My paper was entitled Beauty […]

May 6, 2026May 6, 2026

Clarence at the Cookham Festival – exhibition and talk

Do please watch the introductory selfie video by Marcus on “Clarence Bicknell at the Cookham Festival”. This exhibition of alpine flower watercolours […]

April 29, 2026April 29, 2026

Clarence Bicknell hymn tune

Clarence Bicknell wrote music. So its appears. You can hear his hymn tune “Come. Faithful People” on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVIe2uDDFo with details […]

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026

Visual Theology Symposium, May 2026

I have been invited to present a paper at a conference on Visual Theology near Nottingham on 9th May 2026. I have […]

March 31, 2026April 28, 2026

Giandomenico Padovan – Le Venezie Watercolor Festival, October 2026

We have been working hard to prepare the exhibition of Clarence Bicknell’s botanical water-colours at Le Venezie Watercolor Festival, at the historical […]

March 13, 2026March 13, 2026

Reactions to Clarence’s exhibits in Cambridge

Great reactions to Clarence’s exhibits in Cambridge, open till 21 March. Below are photos from my cousin Nick Ray, thank you. Nick […]

March 10, 2026March 10, 2026

Muriel de Burgh Daly – Journal de Bordighera and the Tea Rooms

Jürgen Schlieszeit continues to research the hotels, buildings and villas of Bordighera, with precision and success. Today he emailed Gisella and Marcus […]

March 7, 2026March 7, 2026

Did Clarence play football?

We received an interesting enquiry from Gerson Maceri, “an Italian language teacher from Sanremo, a great lover of local history and an […]

March 6, 2026March 10, 2026

Clarence Bicknell in Cambridge – radio interview

All three of the family’s vellum-bound albums by Clarence Bicknell are being exhibited for the first time, in Cambridge U.K. in March […]

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