I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments