Can you fill us in about a bit of your history?

I've always lived with manic depression basically, on medication. I've been a dispatch rider in London, I've been a lab technician, I've got a degree in biology from the university of Hertfordshire. I've just lived a normal life really, in between the lunacy.

Before that you expressed your concepts in more 'traditional' ways?

I was putting it more into writing; I've written a book, I've written poetry. I came up with an original type of poetry called 'choice poetry' where you make choices in the poetry as to where you want it to go. You go round in circles with the poetry and you plot your own path. About four years ago I came up with the idea of point painting. Point painting is where you get a canvas and pick one point on the centre of the canvas and then your brushstrokes go outward from the one point like a vortex. The idea is to do a figurative painting with that concept. I've done some abstract paintings with that concept but...

Is this actually knowing what figurative image its going to be when you start?

Yes it is.

So you're choosing some source that you're going to...

Move all the brushstrokes out from. You can change the point to suit the subject, you can choose one of the eyes for instance. You can get a different effect by choosing one of the eyes. Also you can choose several points on the canvas and just move out from those points and merge where they meet together.

When were you doing this sort of thing?

I was doing this about four years ago.

But now you've got to the point, correct me if I'm wrong, where you're not creating physical things?

I suppose you can call the headwear, which is basically the work I'm most well known for, wearing different things on my head around town...

...for example the pinnacle of my work there has been a trout, no, salmon sorry, a salmon on my head around Mill Road, and a loaf of bread, a rubber chicken, a record, lampshade - this is just a few, and I suppose that is creating physical things.

Also the concept of having someone do a funny walk in a gallery with a rubber chicken on his head, that's an action I suppose. It's not a physical thing - its an action - but the way I'm moving in my art is to have non-definable things. I think that's the way art's going. Art's going in many directions I know but ...

...It's where your art's going?

No, my art's going in a number of directions. I have a many faceted way of looking at things. I want to have humour in art, I want to have the madness in art, so basically it makes sense to a madman but it might not make sense to...