The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come back to them years later to see how they are still performing, and this leads our decisions.