“My senses tend to go into overdrive when I gaze down onto a stunning scene like this, and it can be difficult to move on and know that henceforth that view will be confined to memory. My compulsion to paint landscapes is primarily a reaction to somehow trying to record my feelings of awe and wonder before such places, but is also a way of allowing those impressions to linger a little longer during the process of painting them. In doing so it can sometimes feel a rather self-indulgent profession, but if a painting can somehow also convey an artist’s real appreciation of the natural wonders of our world, then perhaps that painter’s time may be considered well spent" - Peter Symonds.