When I Left The Royal College, I

There Was A Point In Time Where The Thought Of People Even Talking About Me Made Me Anxious. Physically.

When I Was Painting In Art School - And I Think Many Painters In The 1980s Worked Similarly - A Finished Painting Would Often Be Constructed From Lots Of Other Paintings Underneath. Some Of These Individual Layers Of Painting Were Better Than Others, But That Was Something That You Would Often Only Realise Retrospectively.

In The End, It Doesn't Really Matter What You Paint. It's All Just A Routine To Connect Yourself Finally With Other People.

There's A Magic That Comes From Playing Entirely To Who You Are. I've Got My Specialist Subject - In The Mastermind Sense - And I Wouldn't Change It, Or Who I Am.

The Studio Is A Laboratory, Not A Factory. An Exhibition Is The Result Of Your Experiments, But The Process Is Never-ending. So An Exhibition Is Not A Conclusion.