“Since I was nine, I’ve known that an artist’s way would be mine after feeling that spine tingling emotion of creating a ‘work of art’. I remember it today (at sixty-eight) that tingling is with me still whenever I create that something out of seemingly nothing.

The completion of my PhD at Newcastle University in 2010 merely emphasised this tingling. I wrote of nomad artists and what being on the move does to the artist as they ‘become other’ on the way.

Since then, I have continued to work exploring painting in as many manifestations as I can. The very language of creativity deeply fascinates me. It’s not about merely communication but exploration of our inner terrain of ‘knowing thyself’ as is chiselled into the lintel on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It is a never-ending quest.”