but the best thing about it is, it's in margate — and margate�*s where i grew up, margate�*s my hometowna massive lot of creative people and artists coming here now, and living here. and so i love it, it's brilliant. and also, like, it's so fantastic. you can paint, and thenjust go down to the beach and go fora swim. i'm really lucky to have this space. i know i am. and you mentioned working on 20 paintings at the same time — is that how you work? and have you always worked like that, working on different things at the same time? that sounds, like, really over the... it sounds like a woman with arms like a windmill or something. but, erm, no, what it is is that i can have a canvas out for six months, ijust do one wash on it, and ijust leave it for six months, and then i'm working on another one, and then i come in and then just do some mad, chaotic drawing on the wash. then i might write something on another canvas, then i might actually completely paint over another one. so what it is, is, when you have space and time, painting, a lot of it, people think is aboutjust the activity of pai