Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972)

'I draw a lot, I make sketches in my sketchbook. On my computer I have a folder where I put photographs that I might use – these are both the photographs that I take with my phone, and found images on the Internet. Sometimes I cut out some pictures from the newspapers and glue them into the sketchbook. Usually, before starting to work on a painting, I already have an idea about the size of it. I make a grid on a printed out photograph or sketch, I draw it on a canvas, and then I start painting. It works more or less this way. I never lack for images, there are so many of them. […] Although I make a grid and I draw, very often I don’t know what the outcome is going to be because I change a lot during the process. I don’t like paintings that give you an impression that they have been made like this [snaps his fingers]. Those I regard more or less as design. You have to really put quite an effort into it. I mean – no pain, no gain' W. Sasnal.