'Growing up in the jungles of India there was no need for drawing or painting, I would sometimes arrange ants into primitive still lives or scratch out portraits onto the trunks of trees. Things changed when I was 11. A lame tiger who owned a stationery shop gave me the keys to his stockroom. I would roll around in acrylic and oil pastels in a reverie, licking canvases and tucking coloured pencils into my wild hair. It was here I learned how to draw and paint well enough to be accepted into Croyden Art College. There, Dexter Dalwood (Turner Prize nominee) taught me and after two years under his supreme tutelage and much hard graft he advised me to become a comedian.'
- ISBN10 0857862057
- ISBN13 9780857862051
- Publish Date 13 October 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English