Jake Attree gave up drinking in 1982. He has not touched alcohol since. “I’m as…

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Jake Attree gave up drinking in 1982. He has not touched alcohol since.

“I’m asked frequently about the surfaces of my paintings and why they’re so thick. I’d rather they were thin to be quite honest, but I feel that the surface of a work of art, or the syntax of a novel, or the construction of a piece of music, needs to be so complex that it is a metaphor for the complexity of existing. And that doesn’t mean it has to be thick. Look at a great Matisse: the surface is massively more intense than mine, but I aspire to have that kind of complexity and intensity in my work and perhaps drinking was my way of building a very immature emotional intensity and complexity. But it was not a help and was never going to be a help. So I stopped doing it.”

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