Grace Glueck
The New York Times
9 March 2001

Using oversize brushes that he makes himself, Mr. Nares lays down a single gestural stroke of color on a blazing white canvas.  Each giant stroke, resonant with a colour like deep mustard, bright blue or plummy cerise, makes a vibrant wriggly bolt of energy across or down the surface, splattering drops and leaving trails as it goes.

Announcing the sinewy adeptness of the artist's hand and wrist, the twists and turns of the strokes are a virtuoso performance, almost like advanced swordplay.  They suggest the intricacies of Japanese calligraphy too.  With it all, they are also a little cartoony, inevitably evoking the giant brushstroke paintings made by Roy Lichtenstein in the mid-1960s.

As a tour de force of brushwork in outsize scale, their mission is accomplished.