Robin Valdemar LINKLATER
Artist and Print Maker
| BORN | 4th May 1945 in Carmarthen |
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| FATHER | Nelson Valdemar LINKLATER |
| MOTHER | Margaret Lilian linklater née Boissard |
| MARRIED | Ca. 1968 Morven HUTCHINS in Windsor Divorced ca. 1970 |
| MARRIED | 1972 Paula Jean THOMPSON in Bridlington |
| CHILDREN | Thomas Valdemar LINKLATER 29 June 1978, Nottingham Holly Olivia LINKLATER 30 Dec 1976, Nottingham Harriet Lucy LINKLATER 3 Aug 1984, Nottingham |
Robin is my brother. The image above is of a clipping carefully preserved by Naena and Evelyn together with the text below from an unidentified newspaper setting out how things stood back in the 1960s. For a more up to date idea of what he gets up to see the GALLERY. Better still, have a look at HIS WEBSITE for a fuller picture.
WORKING HIS WAY. Twenty-one year old Robin Linklater, who is a first year photographic student at Harrow Technical College, is working in the evenings at the Palace Theatre Watford, to help pay for his studies.
Before going to Harrow Technical College, Robin took a theatre designer's course at Wimbledon School of Art and gained his National Diploma at the age of 19. For the next six months his work took him to a different kind of theatre - hospital operating theatres - where he worked mostly at night on emergency cases.
He did this partly because he had always been interested in medicine, partly to get some experience of photography in operating theatres, and partly to pay for a new camera.
FOR DECOR. Robin then returned to the stage, getting a job with Bristol Old Vic. There he helped to make props, which varied from very small objects to a car. When the Bristol Old Vic closed for the summer, he did some wardrobe work for the Edinburgh Festival with a London costumier.
It was at that time that a friend suggested Harrow Technical College to him as one of the leading schools in the photographic field. He applied and was accepted as a student, and intends to take his A.I.B.P. and A.R.P.S.
He hopes one day to be able to use photography in stage décor.
What really happened is another story, but in the meantime he has his own website showing the current state of play. Having spent most of his working life teaching and part of his early retirement in Nottinghamshire, he and Paula seized the bull by the horns and moved to the City of York, highly recommended as the place of my birth.
Duncan Linklater © 2025