“Painting has always been a very comforting process”

“Painting is an act of worship for me”

“My biggest obstacle is time”

“There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t say a quiet thank you to him”

“Becoming a painter would’ve been the obvious choice”

“I don’t tend to overthink things when I’m working like this, I just tap into my imagination”

“This ‘pressure’ to get as much Insta love as possible is quite strong and I give in to it from time to time”

“The drive to create has always been such a strong force in my life”

“Rusty metal and cracked paintwork have nature’s fingerprints all over them”

“There was a period, which was almost a whole year, when I couldn’t create at all”

“It is a way of expressing the things that move me in some way”

“I express the emotions through a female body”

“you don’t stand back and look at your work and think, wow, that’s fabulous”

“I think you feel all those things, every week, every time you approach the easel”

“I think I went a long way around”