It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.