People often ask me whether I try out my ideas on children. But people forget we have all been a child. Being able to cope with having the child in us and use it in a creative way is very important. I find it thrilling to discover the particular art of different landscapes and work them into a book. I just want to look and draw.
Pictures offer a way of looking at and interpreting the text from a different angle.
What you do is provide an image that makes the book work better rather than necessarily illuminating the text. I love the sea because its colour can show different times of the day. I like to put in one or two night scenes, which again give you dark blue and, of course, there are days with blue skies. Sometimes, amid all this blue, I have to go out of the way to put in differently coloured pictures just to make that surprise when you turn the page. I m always conscious of putting in things a child hasn t yet understood or experienced.