The works in this suite of small panels are executed in thick oil paint straight out of the  tube, applied
              with a painting knife. The use of direct mark making and the building up of  succesive layers recalls the
              work of the Parisian tachist painters in the 1950's.  

              There is often a landscape reference in these works and a tendency towards blurring the borders of
              realism and abstraction, a quality also found in the work of Nicholas de Stael, an artist who was an
              influence on the series.