Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.