when she sleeps, she is the most beautiful woman in the world, 15" x 9", August 2004, Oil pastel on paper, £250

This is one of my all-time favourite pictures. On completing this picture, I just sat and looked and wondered how... and then I sort of punched the air because I could create this sort of thing. Painting is like that: weeks of getting nowhere and then just past the moment where you wonder you didn't give up days ago, everything just comes together.