Quote

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

I will be a historical painter.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.