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

California is always in my mind.

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

Faces are the most interesting things we see

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.