All the family are involved in art of some sort. Eleanor, Koch’s wife (and artist Mark Strang’s sister) has written of life on the peninsula: “I have made the choice to allow the pace of the place to set itself on me, rather than the other way round. The slowing down of time is the most powerful influence (apart from its physical beauty) that the penin­sula has imposed on me. It could be likened to walking with a toddler along a beach.”