I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.

I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

The big thing is I try not to repeat.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.