Hi - my name is Margaret Bryant and I live in the North East of England near Durham City. I've always had a great interest in art and now find myself with the time and increasing desire to paint.

I work from home, which is a small rural village surrounded by fields and a country park. Consequently I see the changing face of nature in all seasons and weathers ,which helps inspire my painting.

I use various media - watercolour and wax, but increasingly Brusho and acrylics. Instinctively I find I try and express aspects of the natural world - trees, flowers, water, skies, through an imaginative semi-abstract lens. My paintings , often highly textured and sometimes embellished with gold, beads, chains and random collage items, are characterised by vibrant colour and a sense of movement to impart an essence of vitality. This vibrancy, this quickness, is what I hope to communicate so that subliminally, through the paintings, we can feel ourselves in tune with the different mods of the living world around us.