What made you come to the UK?

I had given up on my History of Art studies and didn't know what to do and visited a German friend who did ceramics at Bath Academy of Art. I thought it would be good to spend some time abroad and to try something else. I applied for the Visual Communications course and was accepted. Thanks to the EU (or EEC at the time) membership of the UK it was all very easy and affordable for me so I moved to Corsham. After my studies I spent a little time in Hamburg, but then London seemed the best place to get started as an illustrator - I already had some things published. I remember driving back to Great Britain away from the Tschernobyl catastrophe that had just happened.