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.

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

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

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

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 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 have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.