Andrew Payne is an artist who uses video to film the landscape near his home in Bedford, England; in particular the River Great Ouse where it flows through the centre of the town. Much of the work shows the optical phenomena known as 'skypools' and 'landpools' - reflections of sky and landscape between the waves on the water's surface.

Having previously made still photographs of this environment, the films now capture the movement of areas of water in the landscape. As with his earlier photography, the use of a zoom lens gives the work a very abstract appearance. It has the extra dimension of sound, the nature of which varies according to the ambient sounds of the location in which the video is recorded - the ordinariness of the sounds places the beauty of the reflections in an everyday context.

Andrew was a postgraduate student at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he worked in the printmaking department, creating installations of etchings and embossed prints. In the early 1980s he began to exhibit photographic work, examples of which are in both public and private collections in the UK. Since 2006 he has been showing his short films at film festivals in Europe and the USA.