On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, w…

- Stella Vine

I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working …

- Stella Vine

My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a bath, and then I often fe…

- Stella Vine

I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot.

- Stella Vine

Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.

- Stella Vine

I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites.

- Stella Vine

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.

- Stella Vine

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velas…

- Stella Vine

I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, l…

- Stella Vine