Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel 72' × 48' in Perception is not neutral it is trained almost algorithmically. I have spent decades training perception as a jewellery designer first and later within the pedagogical traditions of Fine art. Gradually developing a visual literacy just as a physician has developed the perceptual literacy to recognise pathology in what appears to be an ordinary body, the ability to perceive relationships that are invisible to an untraine