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Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.