“When I stop and look at light bouncing of a coloured cloth, the shapes outside the window lit up, the richness and colour of the different objects on the table, yellow- green pears, a glass jug, a black cup, maybe tulips or pink campion, it calls me to paint. Colour and light, warm and cool; the relationship of the objects, one to another, the space around them and how this relates to me: it excites and absorbs me.”