A Few Thoughts About my Artistic Integrity and my Evolution as an Artist

“My degree show (my first exhibition) was pivotal in many ways. I decided then and there to protect the purity of my drawing and the purity of my colour from any pollution from the world, from the art world, from the endless tiring theories, from the ´what is right´. I feel very proud because now, after so many decades, I know that I have allowed my work to develop organically. I have fiercely protected that part of me which belongs to my land and to all lands, to the heart of the creation of so many human beings before me. I know now that I don´t come from nothing. I come from all that preceded me, and through keeping that part of me pure I stay connected to this fundamental truth.”