For me, painting remains a medium of originality.  You can hang an exhibition of painting and it either stands or falls because of what has gone before. When I am painting I feel as if I am in conversation with artists from all places.

To have so much history behind you and to succeed in creating an object that people keep coming back to, I think is an achievement. It is a great challenge to restrict yourself to using horizontal and vertical lines, but those limitations can be expanded upon; I work with very broad and varied means of making.

Atta Kwami, 2014.