I was still amazed by how talented Blake was, and I couldn’t understand why he would be mortified if anybody else found. I guess he had cultivated this image of being a tough guy who no one should mess with, and it was really sad that for whatever reason he felt that he had to hide his skill as an artist.
“Dermott used to tear my s**t it if he found me sketching or painting. My family are… well, they aren’t all the kind of people who appreciate watercolor studies of butterfly wings. My dad thinks art should be brutal, and raw. He had this painting on his office wall when I was a kid - it was a landscape of a sunset over the sea, and it wasn’t exactly the most amazing thing in the world but he loved it and it was right there behind his desk every time I had to go and visit him at work. I f
