My great grandmother was Chinese .

Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.

There was something really wonderful about being able to feel confident about doing my first exhibition in China, that people would have no trouble recognising the images and understanding my work. I also have a lot of freedom in the way I use colour, and I think that kind of freedom in colour is also understandable in every culture.

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.