Vance Broad - biography. One of my paintings, based on studies of wind, water and sail boats. It doesn't work - I tried to catch the wind. I prefer not to watch television if there is something else that I can do, but I find some programmes interesting - especially documentaries, natural history, human interest, contact sports and movies. I prefer programmes which provoke thought and feelings as opposed to soaps and other soporiphics.
Television is a great cure for insomnia.
My greatest pleasures are the pleasure of seeing a child finding out something for the first time, the pleasure of creating something new, the pleasure of sailing, the pleasure of a smile in my partner's sparkling eyes and the pleasure of being surrounded by friends and family. Pleasure springs from playful, positive, adventurous, imaginative but careful fun. Upon discovering their foes to be American, not British, the Germans surrendered and ended up as prisoners of war picking cotton in Mississippi. An early attempt at oil painting. Fine Art honours degrees at Birmingham and Leeds Colleges of art.