My first exposure to Mr Giger's work was walking around a bank holiday market probably in 1980 and seeing a jigsaw for sale with a picture of the Alien on it.

I couldn't quite make out what I was seeing, was it male, female, dead, alive,machine, reptile, clothing, skin. It seemed to give off a vibration of something I should be looking at (like the newsagents top shelf).

I became obsessed.

I began to teach myself to draw by getting magazines with Giger's work in and annoyed my teachers who thought I should have better things to do with my time by doing poor pastiches like this one :

Thanks to my obsession I got onto a degree course, met a lot of greater artists and friends around the world and had an interesting life.

Thanks Hans x