Saville, Jenny

De Kooning is my main man, really, because he just did everything you can do with paint. He reversed it, dripped it, scraped it. But I want to hold on to a certain amount of reality.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

I get to a point when I can't look at any other contemporary art.. Because if I look at anything else, it gives me other options.. I think I can't have any other options because this is it, this is where I'm at.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side.

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.