Given the nickname Imbuzi, Zulu for goat, he has accepted and envisaged his neurodiversity through his art.

Born 22 March 1970 to British parents in Abu Dhabi his parents immediately immigrated to South Africa where he grew up just outside Johannesburg on a small farm. Greg Matriculated from St Alban’s College, going onto Rhodes University to study Law. Dropping out after an ill-suited first year, he took refuge from the academic rigour at the campus radio station, Rhodes Music Radio (RMR). Having found his freedom as a radio presenter, he progressed onto Pick n Pay Northgate for three years.

In 1990, aged 20, Greg was conscripted into the apartheid era SA Defense Forces. Having never agreed with apartheid or racial segregation and being a member of the ANC Greg refused to serve. He left the country for Zimbabwe and then London. He was later charged with Desertion and AWOL carrying a maximum Death Penalty. He was sentenced to 6 months hard labour in a military prison but after 5 days of hunger strike was dismissed and released.

July 1994 Greg went travelling, Austria and then London. He soon ran out of money and was homeless in London, hanging around Liverpool Street station. He soon met his longtime and current partner Piero, a very skilled mural painter through a mutual friend who helped him off the street.

In May 2007 Greg went bankrupt at the High Court London. He describes this as his biggest learning curve and used the life experience as a turning point. He carried this momentum through 2 successful careers in Personal Training and Sports Masseur (including time with the GB rowing team).

Greg moved onto painting and decorating, enjoying how the transformation colour changes a room’s atmosphere. He then progressed onto become a specialist decorator honing in the use of colours and materials.

Alongside his careers he has found art to be his sanctuary and passion. Looking to evolve and take his long lived passion forward. Greg attributes his chaotic professional and financial life to his ADHD, yet art has remained a constant in his equation.

Greg always took to sports, swimming and running competitively at school; riding horses on the farm. It was later realised it was his method for coping from the undiagnosed ADHD. Nevertheless, Greg took up rowing, finding pleasure in sculling his single on the Thames. His neurodivergence implicated his love for rowing through difficult social situations. However it is through these experiences Greg has been able to find himself. Taking up Muaythai later in life, he has once again found his outlet.

Greg is a recent suicide survivor and advocates for greater awareness for mental health and men’s mental health in particular. Suicide is the biggest killer of men.