'Don't think, look', said Ludwig Wittgenstein.

'Colour is life; for a world without colours appears to us as dead', said Johannes Itten.

‘Everything beckons us to perceive it,

Murmurs at every turn: remember me.’

(Rainer Maria Rilke)

I was an abstract painter. Studied under Peter Lanyon and others in St Ives, Cornwall when it was avant garde and booming. l got to know Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton etc.

But I loved cinema, especially French Nouvelle Vague, Italian and British humanist films, which led to my interest in photography.

I came across Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gary Winogrand, William Klein, Robert Frank and realised they all had more life and humanity than had 'art' (whatever that means!)

I agree with HCB:

'I'm not interested in photography, I'm interested in life.'

'I'm not a photographer, I'm an anarchist ... non-violent'

'Sharpness is a bourgeois concept'

Also, inspired by Eugene Smith's anti-war photos from the Pacific in WW2, I wanted to report on my involvement in anti-military and Peace events: there's too much acceptance of aggression in the world.

I've always been a visual person. 'Words make us stupid' (I don't remember who said that).

My life is made of images.