PROPHET ROYAL ROBERTSON

"Prophet" Royal Robertson was born in Baldwin, Louisiana, between 1930 and 1936. He only completed schooling till the eighth grade. He traveled a bit, seeing some of the West Coast in his late teens and later returned to Louisiana to care for his aging mother and then married. His marriage went bad after 19 years and his wife, Adell, left him. It was an event which continued to haunt him and inspired his art works until his death in 1998. Although he had already trained as a commercial sign painter, in 1978 he began studying studio art via a correspondence course he saw advertised on the back of a matchbook. Soon thereafter he began decorating his house inside and out with hundreds of drawings and signs denouncing the "treachery" of his former wife and most other women as the source of all male difficulties, most specifically his own. His fury gradually took on the status of a mental illness, in which he imagined himself to be the victim of an evil world wide female conspiracy with science fiction overtones. Robertson had keen interests in astrology, numerology, and religious cults of all kinds.

some of text taken from Dillante Press book THE END IS NEAR