First time I saw an Alberto Giacometti drawing it was a revelation – I’d been always criticised cos my drawings were ‘too loose’ and not like the precise lines of Raphael or Rembrandt…when I saw his work I realised fuck that, I draw like I draw, and realised that I couldn’t and wouldn’t fit into this strange neo-classical ideal of the perfect line.

Sadly I eventually stopped doing representative life drawing and painting, I thought these old modes of painting and drawing were dead or dying. Although I understand why and still agree with why, If I’d only had seen Alberto’s work then, things might be very different…I do miss life work.