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People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.