I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.

I live in a house that's incredibly old, and it's typical that part of it is slightly in the ground. It's very earthed. It's almost like living in a hobbit house.

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.