 His portrait of E.M. Forster was painted when he was 29.He has twice been married and has one son and two grandsons.He has never stopped painting and writing, and now lives in East Sussex where he is writing the second volume of his autobiography, staring with delight at the Seven Sisters, gardening, and producing the paintings he feels he has striven to create throughout his life – recently described in "The Financial Times How to Spend It" magazine as "muscular, powerfully envisaged oils", the work of "a remarkable Indian summer".