Introduction
Family Background
Welsh working class background
Teacher or the pit
Welsh, English and Australian
Education?
My father, my teacher
Singing in Welsh
The importance of the Welsh background
Art as a vocation
No sense of visual arts
Convalescing uncle
A pair of snow shoes
Painting the snowy landscape
Consider becoming a visual artist
The sheer pleasure of doing painting
Murals for the Post Office bar
Illuminating manuscript writer
A Scottish friend for life
Paris, Gaugin, Madrid and the Prado
Thinking visual arts
Secondary modern school education
Liverpool School of Art
A vague sense of vocation
Ronald McKinzie
I want this to happen
New American painting at the Tate
An expressive tool to show emotion
A powerfull tool to express feeling
Emigration to Australia
The age of anxiety
No future to stay here
Australia, a mistake?
Emigration to South Australia
Looking a bit down
Perfect qualifications to be an Australian
Start of professional life
Adelaide starts to shape vocation
Meeting Kym Bonython
Working for Kym Bonython
Living in the basement
Hanging exhibitions
A fantastic thing
A city of churches and pubs
The cultural hub of Australia
Overwhelmed by Sydney
Max Harris and Mary Martin's bookshop
The first commission
Belonging to the arts
The South Australian School of Art
Studying with people like himself
The first Graphic Art Society
How to be professional
The abstract expressionist route
How to make etchings
The discipline of the practice
Drawing a Coke bottle
A wonderful, banal, useless image
A really good foundation
Return to London
Culture in Australia not on top of agenda
Rough jobs
Friends with Brian Plummer
Meeting great artists
The London years
The transformative power of painting
The explosion of screen printing
Losing the way in painting
A purely intellectual entity
Lack of need for the appearance of objects
The importance of influence
Matisse
The impact of Matisse
The subject of the painting
Colour manipulates everything
I will put in a colour
Colour leads to shape
Feeling through colour
The pallette and meaning
Expressive colour that grows out of the act of painting
Handwriting in painting
Unique sensibility
The decorative quality
The influence of celtic art
Weaving subject amter into a shape
Decoarion, powerful and expressive
The significance of Berlin
Melancholy reinforced by Berlin
Not painting attractive pictures
The studio and the Death Zone
Paying with life for a romantic idea
The pictures take you off someplace else
No references to the trigger
The Instruments for a Solitary Navigator
Titles of abstract paintings
Searching for how to live
A slime trail left by the snail
The artifacts left behind
Painting as a trace of life
Living a life rooted in culture
Running out of steam
Finish knowing nothing
Mark making
Sculpture is implicit from the paintings
Sculptures imply deep space
Sense of the abstractness with the illusion of space
I don't want to be read in a conventional way
An abstract space
an endless maze of questions with no answers
avishing colour, jouissance
Ravished by colour
Ravishing and decoration
The abstractness of music
Reading and music
Baroque music reflected in work
Baroque abstraction
Baroque becomes the subject matter
Approaching the practice
The idea of discipline
Without discipline, can not make good art
How do I do it and how do I shape it?
Searching for a more perfect form of image
Settling for shortcuts in contemporary times
Got to keep working
All art is errotic
Too old to have a future
Turning back to discipline
Reclaiming the past for the future
An old painter's attitude
Thank you
Credits