I was born in 1961 and grew up in Paisley with my parents and two older brothers. We were born 16 months apart, Jim, Robert and then me, so we were very close growing up. We lived in Seedhill Road, next door to my gran, in a small one bedroom flat with an outside toilet in the tenement close. When I was 4 years old, just before I started school, we moved to a council flat in Foxbar. This was luxury. Not only did it have 3 bedrooms and a massive loft space, but it had an inside toilet, a separate kitchen and a view to die for. We had a top floor flat that gave us views right across Paisley, Glasgow Airport, the River Clyde, Kilpatrick Hills and beyond. It was here that my real love for art began.