He is probably also the only kiteboarder to get stranded on the rocks inside San Quentin State Prison's boundaries in Marin County, Calif. (He was
briefly detained and,
after a stern
lecture by a burly guard, released.)
He was
briefly a student at the Slade School of Art; and,
after a stint
lecturing on art history in Maidstone, learning the subject as he taught it, he obtained a position in the visual arts department of the Arts Council, then under the benevolent leadership of Gabriel White, mentor to a generation of exhibition organisers.