Yet this is no mere aesthetic tinkering: as What
If The World gallerist Justin Rhodes states in an article by Sean O'Toole in the December 2007 Business Day Art Supplement, Blom's work is «very identifiable and strong, well thought - out and conceived, not just edgy
graphic imagery.»
It is as
if Allen has lifted them from the studio floor of Leon Kossoff or Frank Auerbach and stuck them — like wads of tar — onto an abstract painting, whose
graphic imagery of symmetrical patterns evokes the symphonic abstractions of Frantisek Kupka and the Surrealist landscapes of Paul Nash.