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Sylvia Vetta
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Sylvia Vetta left teaching for the antiques trade; she organized Oxford Antiques Omnibus and fairs in various locations around Oxfordshire before becoming Director of Oxford Antiques Centre (the Jam Factory)from1988 to1998. She has traded at prestigious fairs under the name Vetta Decorative Arts. She began freelance writing and broadcasting ( locally) on antiques, in 1998. Every month since, she has had features in the award winning supplement of the Oxford Times, Limited Edition. She writes regularly in Weekend and for some antiques magazines on a wide range of subjects including art and history. Her profile features have included Shami Chakrabarti, Colin Dexter, Bettany Hughes, Brian Aldiss, many museum and gallery directors, Sister Francis Domenica, the founder of the first children’s hospice, Ray Foulk ,the founder of the Isle of Wight Festival (Britain’s Woodstock) and is about to interview Moyra & Roger Bannister. Sylvia is Chairman of the Friends of Kennington Library and organizes their popular Literary Festival. She is currently a student on the University of Oxford Diploma in Creative Writing and working on two novels and an anthology of poetry. Little Winter Paints the Stars is mostly set in China against the background of real events between 1960-1993.She recently had a poem selected for a hoarding at the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in collaboration with the Chinese artist, Weimin He. Sylvia no longer trades but was given honorary life membership of The Thames Valley Antiques Dealers Association. www.sylviavetta.co.uk |
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