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

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

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

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

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?