I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
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Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.
In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!