Michael Adams was born in Malaya in 1937 of English parents. His father was a rubber planter and his mother was a professional mezzo-soprano. At the beginning of the Second World War, Malaya was invaded by Japan. Being survivors of the First World War, his parents fled to the Usmbara Mountains in Tanganyika. It is here in the jungle, near Ipoh, that Michael spent most of his childhood.

At the age of 9 he began prep school in England. At 16 he entered the Falmouth School of Art. At 20 he was accepted at the Royal College of Art in London where received his degree three years later as an A.R.C.A and engraver. He applied and was accepted to lecture at the Makerere University in Uganda where he began the graphics department. He taught for 5 years then became a full time painter in the three East African States basing himself in Princess Lucy Bisereko's guest house near the Rubaga roundabout in Kampala.

From his early childhood Michael has appreciated colour and sound. As he passed through Kenya and Tanzania he captured the savannahs and forests, the essence, the humour and the scenes expressed in his watercolours 'the jungles and their voices' with endless shades of green, fire red and dazzling gold. He depicts the richness of the Creole population with such depth and honesty in colours of pinks, yellows and blues mixed profusely to create the simple scenes that you admire over and over.

They got married in 1972 after a dangerous courtship in Uganda, where Idi Amin was chopping up their friends. They both decided it was time to leave Africa and plant trees for a peaceful future. They chose the Seychelles Islands and were welcomed by Jimmy Mancham.

They still live in a wooden plantation house that is over two hundred years old and have two children Tristan and Alyssa - 65 chickens, 14 cats, 2 horses, 4 dogs, 40 ducks, one tortoise and a million fish in a jungle pond guarded by a greedy Little Bittern (Heron). They have a studio full of paintings, silk-screens and drawings.