Remembering India

Sir David Goodall GCMG was British High Commissioner to India from 1987 to 1991. His earlier posting included Indonesia, Kenya, Australia, and Germany, as well as a spell in the Cabiner Office from 1982-4, when he helped to negotiate the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985. Sir David's interest in painting began at school at Ampleforth, with lessons from Father Raphael Williams, a talented watercolorist in the Wilson Steer tradition; but he only started painting seriously twenty years later after reading Sir Winston Churchill's Painting as Pastime. While in India he visited almost every state of the Indian Union, always carrying his watercolours with him. The results have been shown in one-man exhibitions in Delhi (1991), London (1992 and 1994) and Durham (1996).