I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.