MICHAEL DOWLING

Tell us a little about yourself as an artist, how you got started, and a bit about your career so far.

I always lacked the patience to draw comics. I drew all the time as a kid and occasionally I would start drawing a comic – I would labour over one page then completely lose interest. The commitment and patience needed was beyond me. I never made it past the second page. Later I went to Art School and studied painting. I was mostly working from life, out in the landscape, making big oil