Edward Povey is a renowned symbolist artist noted for his public murals on buildings in North Wales.
His work is valued by private collectors all over the world, and his art has also been showcased in New York, Brussels and Wales.
Mr Povey, who has a home in Anglesey, lives between Wales, Florida and Texas.
He first came to notice in the 1970s with his extraordinary murals.
During that decade he painted 25 multi-storey murals on the walls of buildings across North Wales, which brought him instant recognition.
Newspaper headlines announced in 2008 that his famous mural in Caernarfon was offered on EBay by its owner for £2.5 million, and attracted a buyer in New York.
His biography is being written by Keith Nichols, who previously wrote the biography of the eccentric Robert Lencowicz.
His paintings and bronzes are in every museum in Wales and in over 500 private and corporate collections in 16 countries.
He creates homes remarkable for their Bohemian flair, with eclectic collections of artefacts and antiques, and his last two homes and studios were featured in TV documentaries.
He spent seven secluded years on the Caribbean island of Grenada, studying visual symbolism, while surviving the Grenada coup and curfew.
He has never voted, and utterly avoids TV, radio and newspapers - even when they feature articles on him. But he loves films and has an elaborate and sumptuous cinema in every one of his homes.
Describing himself as the dreamy and sensitive son of a rageful merchant seaman, Mr Povey sees human potential as extremely elastic, citing examples from history when people have achieved the seemingly impossible. His sweetheart is a beautiful Floridian figurative artist.
He has coached a huge number of people in their careers, as well as children, students and maximum security prisoners in Texas, using his philosophy of life as a basis.
He spends his life travelling the world with his sweetheart DL Tolar, researching for their compelling art in cemeteries, prisons, theatres, churches and museums.
Using unusual parenting techniques, he raised his two sons via the most basic schools in the West Indies - producing a physicist and fellow of Oxford University, Dr Thomas Povey, and a Cambridge-trained inventor of human voice recognition systems with a worldwide reputation, Dr Daniel Povey. Both men are also artists, musicians and mountaineers.
Renowned symbolist artist noted for his murals on buildings.
