I’m in my 70s now and my studio has become my working home. After decades of travels, teaching, projects and commissions, I need the privacy of my own space where I can explore fresh subjects and revisit old battlegrounds: there are themes and ideas that refuse to leave me alone. Instead they continue to evolve, testing every shred  of knowledge and experience I own. I wrestle with defiant images every day. Rather than count my discarded attempts as failures, I see them as pointers steering me back on track.

Behind my current work lies a multitude of charcoal and pencil drawings, watercolours, gouaches and oil pastels. But I had to reach middle-age to discover the one medium that never admits defeat and can do practically anything and everything, and that for me is oil paint.