Melinda Camber Porter (1953-2008)

Born and raised in London, Melinda Camber Porter lived in Paris in the 1970s as the Cultural Correspondent for The Times and for over 25 years at the Hotel Des Artistes in New York. After a prolonged battle with ovarian cancer, Melinda died aged 55 at her family home in Sag Harbor, New York.

"In order to produce art like Luminous Bodies you have to be like William Blake, absolutely fearless."

- Robin Hamlyn,

Senior Curator, Tate Britian

"Most pertinent to Camber Porter in Michelangelo."

- Peter Trippi,

Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur

"Melinda Camber Porter's novel, Badlands, is very strong, very intelligent and intriguing."

-  Joyce Carol Oates