I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.