Kevin McCloud

Well, we started collecting in 1968.

Wow.

When we lived in the hills outside Perth in a place called Darlington.

And the three paintings that we bought...

in 1968 are in this exhibition.

We've still got them in the collection.

And we always thought of it as a public, private collection.

I believe very strongly that artists paint their works for people to see.

I mean, the artists might not agree with me on that, but I think it's great if people have done all that work to make a picture.

Let's share it.

And so the collection is...

publicly available and this was a great space in which to share art the three paintings that you still got yes yeah what are they and tell us about their journey where they've been over the years

Well, the three paintings, obviously when we were first married, we didn't have any paintings.

Nobody, people usually don't come to a marriage with a lot of paintings and we didn't.

But we lived in Darlington, which was a bit of an artist colony at the time.

So lots of our friends up there were artists and every year they had a Darlington art show.

So we had a house with walls.

We needed something to stick on the walls to display.

And we bought three paintings that are here.

One is the Bob Juniper on the big easel down there.