"Interested in architectural colour relationships..."
I was born in the slate-mining town of Bethesda, North Wales, in the dark shadow of the slag heaps of the Penrhyn quarry. When I was five we moved to the West Indies. We lived in a house on stilts in the rainforest. In the day you could smell the burnt red heat of baking clay, and the night you could taste the deep green of rain-drenched Shak Shak trees. In the jungle you can practically smell the colours. My mother is a scientist who taught me about numbers. My father is an artist who taught me ways of seeing things. I have painted from a very young age.​ We returned to England when I was twelve. When I was eighteen I applied to Oxford and had to decide between science and art. I chose science, but spent a year back in the West Indies painting. Thirty years later I still work as a scientist, but have returned to painting. I have been influenced by the Group of Seven (the Algonquin School) and the Scottish Colourists. My private collection is primarily modern abstract European art with colourist influences.