Graeme Welch was born in New Zealand in 1940, the son of a cartoonist and commercial illustrator. With a talent and imagination fueled by illustrations in ‘Saturday Evening Post’ and ‘Colliers’ magazines he seemed to be pre-destined toward a career in the arts. But it was not to be; suspending artistic ambition; he studied chemistry, eventually graduating with a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1968. Despite the inevitable demands of a career in research, as a teacher and as an educational administrator, he nevertheless completed a degree in Fine Art (with distinction) at Concordia University ...