I was exposed to art very early in my life, as my father, who was in the Royal New Zealand Navy, did watercolour painting and caricatures of life at sea. He was an electrical engineer and painted to pass the many boring hours at sea.
We also went to art galleries when we lived in the UK for two years when I was 9 years old. We spent one day just going to the art galleries in London. I have since been to many art galleries in France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, Singapore, Egypt, Switzerland, New Zealand and Australia.
I have dabbled in art at school and on rainy days at home. I have mainly done graphic art for interior design, especially rendering, and for Town Planning and Geography. I have undertaken sketching classes at the Council for Adult Education in Melbourne, Australia and at the University of New England in New South Wales Australia. We used the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I did learn that we were not encouraged to use the right side of the brain from about the age of seven at primary school from then on we used the left (logical side of the brain), unless you did art at high school which in New Zealand I did for two periods per week until the end of the fourth form as I did the French and Commerce (Economic studies option the other options were French and Latin who did not do art and General who also did not do art). So I ended up taking a liberal education with a bit of sciences, arts and social sciences.
