“Making paintings full of complex shapes Virginia mixed a series of hard edge rectangles and set them afloat in color fields where as often as not the fields dissolved into each other. The composition of these paintings owed not a little to the late Hans Hoffman. The work was strongly influenced and yet within the paintings carefully mapped out limits Cuppaidge’s balancing of color blocks together with the strange color sense gave the viewer a feeling of openness, of landscape obsessed of another kind of light.”

Corinne Robins, Art Magazine, New York

“Although her art training led her momentarily to a question the authenticity of a technique that allows colors to fade into each other, she now knew that a delicate taut surface was possible. Virginia wanted to achieve the light of the sky in paintings, the surfaces were to be light rather than color and she would use the colored shapes like "Sparklers that would intercept light with light. Her vision in tact she began to experiment with a new series of paintings.”

Dr. Kerrie M. Bryan

“Virginia Cuppaidge addresses one of the principle tenets of abstraction: the experience of nature is more than the eye can see - the cosmic realms and the microscopic world also can be realized through abstracted images.”

Professor Joan Marter, Rutgers University, New Jersey USA

“These new works are expressive of freedom but in fact they are underpinned by careful structure, so paintings such as Weather Report and Ribbon Road, with their free flowing forms actually maintain equal visual weight over their whole surface. Colour is the animating force of these works and it is colour, which establishes the internal rhythms and energy of the work.”

Christine France, Art Historian, Australia