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

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

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