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.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

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

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.