Is it ever an issue for you that  figures... in the majority of your work the figures are relatively small within the totality of the picture. Would you ever like to paint... I mean, they’re not as figure-centred, you might say, as many of the paintings we’ve also admired.

No. I think ‘City for Sale’ has life-size figures.

It does, it does.

There are also other paintings where I have done, like in the exhibition I had in 2000, I had two or three paintings with life-size figures in. So I do that.

But still, what we remember your painting for perhaps most, is the zones and the totality rather than the individual figures.

Well, I don’t know, I’m not sure. But I’m interested in the scale, the large and the small. I’m interested in placing large and small together, you know, in some kind of a dialogue. So if you remember the painting called ‘The Characters Questioning the Narrator’, which is a large figure, it was full-size. The painting is about – what is it about – 4-and-half feet high, the figure is about 4 feet in that, and then there is a small figure right at the bottom. So yes, I would be interested in making large figures, maybe I think, the paintings which I’m known [by], in which I have smaller figures, you know.