I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.