Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

Anything simple always interests me.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change.