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Sometime in the late 1950s I discovered my connection with the act of painting. Having moved from the country to the city, the mid 1960s saw me at Chelsea Art School just off the King's Road in the heady days of Swinging London, after a brief encounter with Architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where amongst others I'd met the nascent Pink Floyd. By the early 1970s I found myself sharing a flat with founder and former lead singer Syd Barrett, the home/studio I've occupied on my own ever since. In the 1980s, somehow I became briefly a reflection of my own earliest form of received iconography, the discarded cosmetics displays from my parent's pharmacy storeroom where many hours were spent playing as a child, when I was featured on similar products myself in Japan, and likewise discarded. In the 1990s I discovered the digital medium; my workspace expanded from the confines of the studio into the virtual world. Making imagery still always the main occupation, hours spent chasing line, form, colour and content; solitarily, obsessively, demonically, joyously, neurotically, irrationally, hopelessly, devotedly, delightedly. More recently I found myself, suffering severe diarrhoea at the time, on a catwalk in Paris, the inspiration in part for that season's Comme des Garcons Homme Plus collection. With an exhibition in Denmark just now finished, I've been sent photos of a mural based on my work found on the streets of San Francisco.The daily pursuit for hours on end of such a liquid medium as paint within the confined space of the canvas picture surface is a quasi-mystical, and certainly curious activity, on which to, spend the larger part of one's conscious life. The public response is equally curious, of course.

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