"After the heart failure I decided to go back to my artistic roots." He signed up at the Wirral Metropolitan College where he learned the special techniques which have become so much a part of his style.
He is amused when critics have described his works as displaying "typical Scouse humour". The truth is that Corona comes from Bradford where he first studied art.
His work has been taken up by the Liverpool-based art agency dot-art run by Lucy Byrne, another person who arrived to study in Liverpool (in her case from Warwickshire) and stayed on. "I liked the place so much," she says..
Now she handles 23 local artists whose work is displayed and sold on websites as well as organising special exhibitions like last night's at 60, Hope Street.
The Three Graces was officially unveiled by Liverpool Daily Post arts editor Phil Key who compared some of Corina's style to that of the post World War I artists of the Dada movement.
He also described a beer-mat quote from Oscar Wilde that "All Art is useless".
