There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.
Nigel CookeThere are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.
Nigel CookeThe paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and it's a bit like a little movie each time - how do I get the props, the setting, the time of day, the light, the action.
Nigel Cooke