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?

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

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

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

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing