Coudrille started life at Landewednack on The Lizard in 1945. Trained as a painter, he joined the Saint Ives community from 1959 but left after his first solo exhibition in 1966, for a career as Television political satirist, song writer, composer and musical director. Whiplash caused spinal damage in 1972. During convalescence he wrote and illustrated (books include 1974 “A Beastly Collection”, the 1976 award-winning “Farmer Fisher” and “Love Death and Bad Behaviour”, 2014. Receiving the Melody Maker Soloist award in 1974, he toured internationally with Russian ensembles. He returned to painting in the ’80s, and to Cornwall in 1989.