What is foregrounded in the encounter with these works is the congealed, gouged and plastered oil paint, and the carefully considered chromatic interactions. The crushed stone pigment, plant oils and resin, Poppy, Linseed, Damar and Copal that constitute oil paint are here mixed into a rich, buttery substance – sometimes matte and sometimes glossy. This substance is pulled by palette knife, brush and comb to create the surface. Images emerge out of the scratching and scraping that makes stratified ridges like geological structures. At times, there are almost tilled furrows into the impasto as if it were rich fertile soil.