My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.