With their crusty, chalky, busily painterly surfaces, the paintings have an impressively complicated theatricality.

The flat, sensuously painterly surface gives way to an illusory pictorial space that calls to mind Turner or traditional Japanese landscapes.

Unlike de Stael's paintings, which tend to feature extremely thick painterly surfaces, these compositions are thin, light and dry.

The artist, an erstwhile pure abstractionist, grounds his cosmic vision in glazed, sensuously painterly surfaces and contains it within compressive compositions (Johnson).

Most of the prints are shown in frames without glass fronts, so that the painterly surfaces may be appreciated.

The work suffers from an excess of sincerity, and, much as they appeal to the eye, the painterly surfaces seem a bit contrived.

Crusty painterly surfaces call to mind stale cake frosting.

She manages to suspend the soupy atmospheres she creates within a painterly surface that is simultaneously rich and awkward.

The paintings have changed, no longer using acrylic, and returning to oil paint and a more painterly surface.

He is, rather, closer to the Central European abstract painters, where emotion is felt within the abstraction and a painterly surface is never just a surface.