Strang himself is a painter of abstracts: “I’m inspired by what you might call the spirituality of landscape.” His paintings, often in several panels, contain a variety of the kinds of triangles the peninsula’s hills form as they rise from the sea, but the resemblance ends there, for his paint­ings are rich in reddish-orange and blue-grey tones. “Someone suggested the other day that I needed more green in my paintings, and it was Pierre Bonnard who said you could never have too much yellow. Now that’s the kind of advice which is really useful!”