I've lived on the Isle of Man for long enough that I can't imagine working anywhere else. Not because nothing else would do, but because the island has become so woven into how I work that the two are hard to separate. My studio is at Grenaby - in converted farm buildings in the south of the island where nine of us rent space and get on quietly with our own work. Stone walls, high ceilings, the particular quality of light that comes through old windows. Outside, when the weat