I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.