"I paint not knowing," says Nigel. "I paint to discover. I paint to record feeling. I paint to communicate, what I can’t say. I paint to order chaos. I paint to defy, my inevitable death. I paint to express, the individual in us all. I paint in a dream. I paint to see if you feel the same." Although Nigel's work is open to interpretation, it is held together by a common thread, namely the relationship between the intentional and unintentional. "I often attempt to make the intentional look unplanned and the unintentional appear deliberate. I am often after something I can not quite pin down, such as the emotional content in a dream.