Andrew Lanyon is a painter, publisher, author, and film-maker. Born in St. Ives in 1947, he was brought up in West Cornwall but only saw the light when he became a pataphysician recently though he does not know what it is.

Andrew Lanyon is now a renowned comic author following the publication of his best seller A Fairy Find available from Portobello Books and his pataphysical masterpiece Circular Walks Around Rowley Hall available from Atlas Press. Lanyon's work is in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Collection, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has published over thirty of his own books and films.