"Anybody who's had the pleasure of being on Sydney Harbour at night when there's some kind of celebration going on, will hopefully understand this picture. Again l've made it with a deliberate decorative border, l've got fireworks, a liner is going down the harbour, the full moon is out: it's an incredibly romanticised vision of that kind of image. And I was very pleased when the world famous jazz musician James Morrison chose to write a piece of music to this painting. I'm still occasionally making pictures about the feeling of the harbour at night; they may be slightly more, I hate to use the word sophisticated, but I guess they've moved on from this image but, in a sense, this is about the kind of thrill of being on Sydney, at night, during a celebration."