I have been painting ever since I can remember. In fact one of my first memories is sitting in a high chair next to my Dad while he worked on a planning scheme - and I drew with crayons on the bits of paper he chucked away. Luckily none of those juvenilia remain! Today, instead of crayons, I use oil on canvas for most of my paintings -.the colours and textures that you can make with oils are pleasurable things in themselves. My work is primarily concerned with nature and landscape, but not simply to represent them. I aim to explore our human reactions to them through use of colour and line, and, more importantly, how one’s feelings change, perhaps with the light, or the time of day. Through colour one may perhaps help someone look at everyday things in a new way, by putting a different emotion into the painting from that which is expected. I find water and rivers especially fascinating because one sees simultaneously into the depth and across the surface in the reflections; they have an ever-present ambiguity. Our perceptions of things are rarely simple and can change for many reasons - as the light changes, the feelings we have at that moment, or depending on the history of the object seen. I hope that you will see some of these varying perceptions in my paintings.