Exposed Painting, Paynes Grey

"Such work requires interpretation that engages with basic phenomenological and psychological issues. It is a type of painting that can be understood to function within the contrasting terms of a semiological system which elicits an awareness of structural considerations while paradoxically being defined by the amorphous and the indeterminate. Such works juxtapose the solidity of geometric form and/or surface facture with a quality of luminous spatialisation." (S. Morley, 'The Sublime and the Beautiful', Art Monthly, June 1996, p.14.)