Spontaneity

I grew up on a farm where my dad did all his own mechanical work. Mum was always occupied with art or craft of some kind. I started drawing cars at about age 14 – usually street rods with detailed V8 engines (often done surreptitiously during classes at school).

My mother had begun painting decades earlier and was proficient in oils, watercolours, pastels and acrylics. I wasn’t interested in ‘art’ at school. My first real attempt at painting happened ten