All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people actually project actual scenarios on to the paintings. Hopefully that means that they have a little bit of life to them. Figuring out the rhythm, the structural element has been the key thing in this work, more than the color element. It really was the variety of different widths that lead to a certain movement, a rhythm. Otherwise I'd fall into anything that was too stripy or almost like bar codes, and it thwarted the natural flow of the painting.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.