1. Can you summarise your work in three words? –
Colours, shapes, lines.
2. Where do you go and when to make your best work? –
Two places really, I do a lot of my design work in bed as soon as I wake up with about 20 cups of tea, then when it’s time to physically make the paintings, I’m lucky to have an amazing studio, which I share with my best pal, Tony.
3. Which art movement do you consider most influential on your practice? –
On my practice specifically, I suppose it’s probably a mix of Pop and Op!
4. How do you describe your ‘creative process’? –
I used to have so many ideas, and such an urgency to get them onto the page or the canvas that they were often terrible. The way that I’ve managed to actually start making work that I’m really happy with is by placing multiple processes in the way, so that the image is continuously refined.
5. Which artist, living or deceased, is your greatest inspiration? –
My number 1 since I took a serious interest in art has and always will be Paul McCarthy. The scale, insanity, repulsiveness, slickness, humour. He’s the whole theme park.