Roberts is a self taught abstract portrait and still life artist, whose work has provoked powerful reaction, and on occasion the demand that the works should be removed from view. Perhaps it is the apparent naivety of the work that lulls the viewer into a feeling of safety, only to later be betrayed when the vulgarity and raw feeling reveals itself. Accusations of manipulation, staging and misrepresentation are commonplace, but Victoria does not paint for an audience, the audience is indeed incidental. Marc Luickx Curator Studio29, London. You can be an open book if you've only got one page.
Several volumes is another matter.
Something altogether different. The thought of eating a succulent pear does not appeal but the thought of squashing one does. The blushing hobgoblin was all of a doodah as Calamity Svelte told the old, old story of Asarte in search of a squire. Cavalier and the Wisp. Every day I grow more like my father.