Cornish Surrealist painter, writer and composer, and Arts Correspondent for Cornwall World Radio.

Coudrille started his career in the 1960s as a political satirist, song-writer and performer on Westward Television and was often heard on BBC Radio 4 'Jack de Manio's Today'. While still commuting to Cornwall to paint, he spent a spell in Rome making movie music. Back home, he spent time at the British Museum researching ancient instruments. This was intended as groundwork for his Atlantis Choral Phantasy. His close collaborator on this was the late Biblical Music authority Wallace Madge. Coudrille also produced the minutely accurate and detailed illustrations for his definitive book on the subject. All this was somehow squeezed into Coudrille's life "on the road" as a professional musician.

This breathtaking schedule was (literally) knocked on the head in 1972 by a serious road accident. Unable to play or travel, he wrote and illustrated "as occupational therapy" the remarkable psychographic alphabet book A Beastly Collection, published by Frederick Warne in 1974. This extraordinary book was widely praised by critics. Indeed, it could be said to be the first truly surreal children's book. Copies are now much sought after as collector's items. It was, and still is, a beautiful work of genius.