My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.