Each book first begins with a little idea.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.