I am a third-year Painting Student at the School of Art

The photo shows part of the painting workshop where I study, on a late spring afternoon. The school is situated in a beautiful Art Deco building and I very much appreciate working in such elegant surroundings. I often take photos from this vantage point, contrasting reflections of sky and sun on the windows with the white of the building's facade and (increasingly rarely, it seems) clouds. I intended the photo to be a record of a momentary effect of the light, with a view to later making a painting of it, but I never have painted it. Instead, I keep taking photos of this constantly repeated moment, each time different, somehow seduced each time by the mood that is created by the qualities of light, colour and composition that prevail.