While some of his images are clearly, even sharply, delineated, depending on his chosen printmaking medium, his is perhaps most evocative when he deploys his gifts as a watercolourist in his etching.  His tonal gradations in aquatint, combined with subtle effects in inking (he has an incomparable colour sense) contribute to that degree of suggestion, as opposed to statement, which typifies his work.

He is by no means a one-string fiddle.  His work in oils could almost be by another hand, geometric and clearly delineated, often on a grand scale.  And yet they bear the hallmark of his characteristic take on life - isolation and transience. We do not know what his figures are about, and what is more, nor do they.


Keith Hunter