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.

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

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

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

To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.

Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's only really quite recently that we've relegated the fantastic as being just imagination and not real and having no purpose.

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.