"The radio has been a very good friend over the years. I was born during the Second World War so my early years were spent listening to an accumulator radio in the garden and a radiogram indoors, so I think that is where my imagination was encouraged. I could never just sit and listen, I wanted to draw or paint. It is speech radio that has been the background to all of my watercolours. I take photographs, make notes on site then work with them at home. I use the radio as a companion while I'm lost in my painting world."
