"Fantasy was always there. One of the artists I was a great fan of I discovered,
was Arthur Rackham.
When I was at college I did a lot of work on Fairy Tales
but when I left college the work that was coming in was anything
but fairy tale. I wanted to move back into that area and
be more specific which is what I felt."
"I always talk of the fairies being like the sea, so sometimes the tide
is out and they are a long way away, and sometimes the tide comes in, and so
the tide went out for quite a while, but the tide is coming in really fast now,
and it is quite fascinating how that happens."
" It's very interesting, people often think that dealing with faery is a
retreat from reality and I say 'no' it is not, it is actually a re-engagement
with the world."
"Each time I paint a picture it is always superb, and then I think, Oh God
this is rubbish, and then I do the next one and Oh no, this is rubbish, and it
really is rubbish, and then I think, what was the other like and it wasn't so
bad after all!"
"A wing is just an extension of an expression of a faery, of what the faery
is, yes but they are made up of emotion."
"I don't think you can but help to put yourself into everything you do,
because that is how you experience the world through yourself."
"My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe,
its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off
in safe areas but it gets into deep waters."
"I always assume that children live in the same world we do.
I always approach it that way, so I don't specifically
do books for children that are for adults however I always
assume that children will read them."
"I would keep saying the world we are talking about is not exclusive, it's
inclusive, and everybody can join in its part of bringing everybody in and not
cutting things off, everyone's first impulse is to cut it off. I need to own
this, I need to own a bit of it. Actually, it's not like that at all, it is a
thing that should go on enlarging bringing energies and enjoyment and pleasure,
yes faeries are for everyone."
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