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

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

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.

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

It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings. So to actually introduce something evil or bad was quite hard for me.

Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit.