“Anyone who’s been to Northern Ireland, it’s very grey and rainy,” he said.
“Every time I ring my mother, it’s always raining – and she always talks about the weather.
“What I quite like is it is a grey landscape with green, where colour ultimately has to stand out in it. It’s the horizon line, it’s nearly low somehow, which means it’s all about mid tones nearly.
“So when I was growing up, I liked colour, I liked pattern, I liked fashion – because it contrasted to everything I was around.”