David Dawson

In London, you just have to be a bit more organized some ways.

But I can have a pretty quiet life in...

I choose carefully now which exhibitions I go and see and which art openings I go and see.

Otherwise, it just takes up all your time.

Yeah, too sociable.

Being a painter, I just find...

you've got to be fairly, you know, solitary.

You've got to spend a lot of time in the studio on your own.

And David Hockney says it very well.

You know, David says, you really believe and want the bohemian lifestyle and surround yourself in a sort of bohemian life.

But you, the painter, has to be very disciplined and not join in.

protect your privacy protect your privacy and work all the really great artists work their butt off everyone works really hard

For me, that's the way it works with me, yeah.

Always?

Yeah, always has done.

Yeah, which maybe sometimes that might be a bit of a get out for me, but it's how I seem to do it.

And then two or three, you just feel they're getting closer and closer.

So there's six paintings that are coming down from Wales on Monday.

They've been worked on for a few years.

They're ready to come down now.