The picture above is called The Artist's Garden. I painted it for a magazine article and photographed it in a step by step series of images for the readers to see how one of my paintings is developed and completed. There was a competition too, to count how many artist's work were included in the painting. Can you guess ? See if you can name the artists. Let me know. The fine figure of a man spread-eagled on the gate is myself in a portrayal of a very famous drawing. It was a very inventive phase that I went through creating the series. Sometimes in life you look back and think "Wow, how did I do that". I get the same feeling when I look back at some of the book covers I illustrated.

Now I'm older and more world-weary and my 20:20 vision has disappeared , I put on my glasses and it's a bit harder to create such detail. The work I do now is so different. I think it's like rock bands who go through different phases in their career. The fans still follow them, but sometimes you harken back to their early stuff. My fans still follow what I do, the only difference is, unlike rock groups, in my case, the personnel haven't changed!