the business
of pleasure
Entertainment & The Arts, Theatre & Music, Culture, & Leisure
'DT' FOUNDER/WRITER
D.T.’s four decades in The Business of Pleasure have taken him from the London Story Departments of the Hollywood Majors through iconic West End Musicals to Tour Operating and Ticketing Tech, while simultaneously authoring a string of plays, screenplays, songs and occasional raps. He is currently revisiting his (distant) youth by editing his novel for young adults: “Teaching Alison A Lesson”
Chris Courtenay VOICE ARTIST
Chris is a professional actor (trained at the Arts Ed) based in south-west London. Apart from numerous credits for stage and screen, Chris’s work includes narrating over 30 audiobooks, as well as internet- and radio-based scripts
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Chloe Leigh MUSIC
Inspired by wordsmiths such as Leonard Cohen and Laura Marling, Chloe Leigh’s music is a fusion of English and Spanish folk elements united in tales of love & loss https://www.flowcode.com/page/chloeleighmusic
Adam De Ville ARTIST
Adam is a self-taught artist exhibiting and selling work across the UK and Ireland and internationally. His work includes portrait, landscape, abstract and figurative. Character, story and capturing the moment are core elements, with displacement and belonging often forming key themes.
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition 2021. Winner Dry Red Press Award
London Contemporary Art gallery: Landscapes
The Gallery Holt, Tue Natural World, group show 2021
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2021
Wales Contemporary 2020/21
Group Watercolour Show ‘A Narrative’, The Galley Holt 2020
Painter Stainers Art Sale 2020
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition 2020
Solo show, Lilford Gallery 2020
Solo show, The Doorway Gallery, 2020
That Art Gallery, Bristol, ‘Together/Apart’ group exhibition 2020
Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, London, ‘Works on Paper’ 2020
The Affordable Art Fair, London, with The Doorway Gallery
The Affordable Art Fair, London, with Lilford Gallery
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition 2020
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize Exhibition 2019
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, All Media 2019. Winner: Highly Commended
Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2019
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries 2018
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2018, 2019
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists ‘Prize’ Exhibition 2018
Flux International Exhibition, Chelsea, London 2018
Parallax, Kensington, London 2018
Group Show, Store Street Gallery, Bloomsbury, London 2017/18
Group Show, McGillan and Woodall, Ramsgate, 2018
Solo and Group shows, Stark Gallery, Canterbury 2016
Group Show. Fishslab Gallery, Whitstable 2016. Winner: Highly Commended
Artist in Residence, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury 2016
Featured Artists, Abstract Magazine
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Chris Skarratt VIDEO PRODUCTION
Chris has been making beautiful films for the Arts, Culture & Heritage sectors
as well as many blue chip brands & broadcasters for over 15 years -
He is the founder of The Cleveland Square Productions.
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PODCASTS PRODUCED BY THE HOUSE OF HORLA