ARNO van der Plaat never thought he would become an artist and when he did, he certainly never dreamed that he would mount a public exhibition of his paintings - let alone at the age of 88.
"I only took up painting while I was going through a period of ill health, (painting) as my mother and her siblings had done all along," the Cooma octogenarian said.
"And then I never published any paintings, ne...
