Now I know a lot of people suspect that I've had no training whatsoever and just make up stuff as I go along. Not true! It's taken me many years to cultivate an image of genial naïveté clueless stupidity and I'm not going to let other people believing I have some kind of innate talent stop me now!

No, I have trained at the finest Art Schools in England: Brixton College, Sir John Cass School of Art in Whitechapel, Humberside University and dropped in at San Francisco's Academy of Art to see what was being taught to the rich and witless (as opposed to the poor and gullible like myself).

I suppose showing off your life-drawing is a bit like running around waving your underwear over your head going, "Look at me, World, I can hold a burnt stick and draw naked people!!". Unless you're Egon Schiele or something, where it's less of a peek up the skirt to see how everything works and more just giving the Art World the horn.

For me, it's showing I can do more than just skulls, cars, flames and flaming skull cars, and that I do in fact, have a soft, chewy centre... an education.

Or that I just like waving my underwear over my head...

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