Geoff Hall was born in Hartlepool, the industrial North-East of England and during the recession of the 1980’s struggled to find employment. In 1987, he moved with his wife Jeanette and son Mark to Bristol where he studied for a degree in History and Art History. His dissertation was on the ‘Iconoclastic Disorders of the 16th Century’. He has subsequently received a degree (MPhil) in art education, wherein his thesis remodelled the curriculum for art along cultural narrative threads. He has been a writer for over 15years, part of which was spent as the Arts Editor for The Big Picture magazine under the Editorialship of Dr Craig Bartholomew. Ten years ago he started a mentoring group for artists, after an art student at his church was told by her tutor that ‘her faith was inappropriate’ for a student at the college! The Group, as it is called, now covers word, image and performance arts and Geoff works with Christians who are misunderstood by their church, or rejected by secularised institutions of art and learning. He is now a published author with Chris Lorensson’s Upptacka Press and has four books in a series called ‘Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape’ which will all be published in 2011. With Tim Woodford, he has a film company, Handy Cloud Productions and in 2009 made their first film ‘One’, which they took to Los Angeles; where it received ‘critical acclaim’. They are seeking new adventures together, to counter the nihilistic spirit apparent in many European films today.