10 years ago Kiwi artist Angus Collis left home to try his luck as a full time artist in Spain. The Otago Polytechnic graduate's work is on show at a Barcelona gallery and he's had exhibitions in Madrid as well as Paris. At the moment though he's back home, showing work at Dunedin's Artist's Room Gallery. But even though he's been in Barcelona for a decade now, his paintings are still are mostly about New Zealand. Lynn Freeman asked Angus about his first impressions of Spain when he moved there to be with his partner: