«So Pasmore, in spite
of his abortive pursuit
of pure
abstraction, joined the ranks
of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted
abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints
of such, that keeps their work linked to the
old English
traditions of poeticised landscape reference»