“I thought he was a very serious, very frail old man. A white-haired old man, kind of severe.

“Like David Cronenberg - most of the photographs you see of him in newspapers and magazines he looks very intimidating, cerebrally intense. And he is very bright, but he’s also a lot of fun and he likes to laugh and make jokes. You wouldn’t get that from his photographs.

“Freud was very conscious of how he was photographed. There were very few images of him that are candid, there are some films of him shot late in his life where he was sort of a little bit more playful, but the way he presented himself visually was very austere, very severe and that’s the image I had of him.”