I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.