You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at..

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it..

I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the my….

Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but who.. As if the gutter, misunderst….

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human..