Artist's Palette

Altered Vision

Josh Reid was born in the small town of Narrogin, in Western Australia. He lived there until he graduated from high school. As a young man, he moved to Penrith in New South Wales and joined a Christian theatre company called Covenant Players – to spend the next five years being trained in the craft of acting and directing.

During that time he also travelled extensively. He spent around two years in India and the surrounding countries (Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand).

While in India, Josh was given a small box of watercolours. He enjoyed painting flowers on whatever paper he could find. At that stage in his life

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