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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.

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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.

When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length.

For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).

In painting it is the forming of the image.

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