In many ways John was a very private person who could also be the life and soul of the party, a family man who enjoyed solitude and felt that he had not the time for the constraints of group activity, i.e:-
“It is difficult enough trying to attain ones own objectives without having to consider the objectives or lack of objectives of others one is in association with for collective purposes” and “I feel strongly that the real and fundamental criteria have to be formed by the individual who wish to form or be part of a collective. Themes do not make a group or mixed show, cohesive attitudes to work do, even if the starting points of individuals are diverse”.