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What is your favourite film of all time?

Raging Bull

What music are you currently listening to and why?

Fela Kuti, Gustav Mahler, The Smiths, The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, Wu-tang Clan, Public Enemy, Grace Jones, ABBA, David Bowie, Joni Mitchel. A small selection of the music I listen to depending on my mood. They help me concentrate on drawing.

Which living artists do you most admire and why?

Peter Beard. I like the way he combines photography, painting, illustration and different found objects to illustrate death, glamour and beauty.

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?

I first discovered beauty in disturbing subject matter when I saw “1946 Painting” by Francis Bacon.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?

Francis Bacon exhibition at Tate Britain in 2008.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?

 - ‘Is that all drawn with pencil?’

- ‘Yes, it took a lot of 8Bs’

What / who inspired you to be an artist?

The fact that I am useless at everything else.

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what if any the significance of this location is?

In my bedroom at home.

What do you like most about being an artist?

Not working in a kitchen.

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?

Selling a piece of jewellery to the Victoria and Albert Museum that I made from bones and teeth found at the river Thames for the Street Style exhibition in 1995.

What are your plans for the coming year?

• Work on large drawings, carrying on from a project I started at Camberwell College of Arts, inspired by movies.
• Portraits of musicians performing live.
• Work on a portrait collection based on anti heroes.
• Continue with doing fashion and book illustration.
• Enter competitions, like the Sherwood competition.