Guided by William Coldstream’s principle that marks made should be a response to something seen, I approach the figure as I do a landscape, as a composition of forms with careful consideration of boundaries between colour changes. I seek a classical objectivity in my work, detaching the object from any form of narrative.

When drawing, I like to work with supports and media that require a very deliberate response to my observations whilst oil gives me the opportunity to work slowly such as this nude which is the result of a 10-day sitting at The Slade School of Art in London.