When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.