Freelance writer, author and speaker, Sylvia Vetta took up writing and broadcasting on art and antiques in 1998, when she began writing features for the award-winning magazine, The Oxford Times. She went on to write for numerous magazines on art, history and science-related events. Her long-running profile series, Oxford Castaways, has been compiled into three books. Sylvia has published two novels, Brushstrokes in Time, a fictionalised memoir of a member of the Stars Art Movement in China, and Sculpting the Elephant, an interracial romance set between Oxford and India. www.sylviavetta.co.uk