My character as a painter is founded on a childhood spent on orchards with a father who each year took us boys hunting in the Urewera, who read us tales of wild places and man eaters and shot deer with the 303 rifle, and later, the bow and arrow in emulation of the late great American archer, Howard Hill.

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