I'm always amazed how wonderful it is to paint with a piece of card or a stick, anything other than a brush. The pressure of exectation is removed and whatever happens is a surprise. Our first assainment in painting was to pick 6 to 8 pictures that interested us. I had some colourists, Llyod Martin, Sean Scully and the white of Robert Ryman, also Gerhart Richter, Chaim Soutine, Frank Stella, Klara Liden"s wonderful torn posters and a picture of one of Robert Gobers draign holes. Then we had a morning of mark making with paint. The current project is to make an instillation inspired by an art work. I have picked Duchamps "Urinal" and Rauchenbergs "Monogram".