I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or ….

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine..

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting..

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I st….

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered tha….

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sak….

I tried to learn the violin for a while..

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess th….

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spellin….

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them..

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits o….

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop..

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own..