Bruce was a breech birth and spent the early part of his life experiencing close encounters of the terminal kind. When he was three he nearly drowned in a public swimming pool; at eight he was swept out to sea on a raft; at 16 he was savaged by a shark and the following week he slipped down a cliff and would have fallen into a raging sea but for crashing onto a ledge.

 

    He is self taught and is believably opinionated. He was educated at one of the best schools in South Africa, Pretoria Boys High and took out Irish Citizenship in 1985.  In 1987 he became a member of British Mensa.

 

   His work appears in the publications Drawing and Painting with Pastels, Drawing the Nude, The Artist Magazine and Kent Life.

 

   He has shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; The Pastel Society; The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours and The Guild of Aviation Artists. 

   He is a founder member of The Pilgrims Way Art Group, who hold their annual Summer Exhibition in the 13th Century Tithe Barn in Lenham, Kent, England.

 

   He rates modesty as one of his most enduring traits, followed by humility, chastity and  he can't remember.

 

    He thinks that age is depressing and decadent. He cannot honestly say how old he is and has to refer to his birth certificate. He has decided to be 35 years old and stay that age. He thought he might live until he was 150 years old but being stuck at 35 now, he doesn’t think he can live that long!

 

Bruce can touch-type, break an egg with one hand and toss a pancake 15 feet in the air and catch it in the pan. He can hardly sing, cannot play the piano and is wholly responsible for lowering the UK sex rate to 2.4  times per week.

 

Bruce lives in a converted Chicken Shed which he now romantically calls The Studio, with his best pal an English Setter called Oska.