East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.