Larissa Matharu

Sadly the Astronomer and Artist Professor John Bastin FRAS, whose watercolour 'Larissa and Theology' (painted in September 1995), is the back cover of Haunting Poems, died two days after the book was published. John was a Physicist and an Astronomer however I knew him as the distinguished watercolour artist and I am very honoured he chose me to be one of his models.