St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.