You started painting later in life, is that right? What inspired or encouraged you to pick up a brush and start painting?
 
Actually, it began a lot earlier at my mother’s knee! Un be-known to me. 

It began in a house.  My first.  A house of sensitivity to observe, of garden, of flowers, of painting, of beauty.  The first two years of my life my post war family lived at Wingello, my Great Grandmother’s home in Orange NSW. Australia!