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Ever since I began painting a few years ago I have seen other artists differently. I have lived as a sculpture for more than two decades and used my body as a canvas. When I picked up a brush my way of seeing art changed. Years of studying photography had trained me to chase the light that reflects off things. Painting taught me to feel the air between the eye and the object. I didn’t realise David Hockney was about to change my perspective in seeing once again. He’s spent more than sixty years exploring that territory and it fills his new show at Annely Juda Fine Art.

I first met Hockney after painting him as a teapot with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth during a four-day sprint when I made my first three hundred portraits. I brought the little painting to him at

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