I was lying in bed and I had this idea of what I wanted my art to be. I wanted it to be the kind of art that creative and imaginative people hung over their large sofas. I remember visiting my violin tutor’s house and she had a stylish canvas print of a scene from the film The Big Lebowski above her sofa. It looked great and I wanted to create something similar in paint. I scribbled the idea onto a blue scrap of paper (cut-offs from my origami project) and pinned it to the back of the studio door. It stayed there for some time.

I appreciate the Beatles and have always viewed the iconic Abbey Road cover as a representation of the start of something wonderful. The precise electric moment when it all comes together and you walk out to do something unprecedented. But I began to see this image everywhere as an over-commercialised consumer product. It irritated my minimalist sensibilities. At the same time, I saw fine art printed on bags, postcards, everywhere; meanwhile, movie stills were printed on canvas. In part this painting is a response to the commercialisation of iconic images and a meeting of fine art and pop culture.

There is an element of absurdity in seeing a tiger cross a busy street. The tiger shouldn’t be there but, as is the case with urban foxes in the UK, if you remove habitats tigers will be forced to move closer to man.