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I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.
When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.
I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
I'm very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance ... I've always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't.
