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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
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- Nov 07, 2020