My Dad’s a printmaker and he still is a printmaker. My Mom was an art teacher. She’s retired now. So when I was growing up, there was always lots of art materials around the house and they were always really encouraging about drawing, especially my Dad.
And he would always say, “You know, whatever works for you, you have to try it out and experiment with lots of different things.” So he was a really good influence. And my Mom was really into doing lots of observational drawings, so we used to go out drawing together.
So I grew up in an environment where art was really important and it was never seen as a sort of second class subject. So because I was good at art at school, it wasn’t, “Oh, no, you should be better at math.” It was always, “No, that’s fine. Go with that.” So that was a really good thing.