My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state.
'Columbinus' was four years of my life, collaborating with a lot of people and gathering lots of information.