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

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

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

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.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.