" The black paintings are more impressive… They are like stained-glass windows, the forms outlined in thick lines like leading. As you move before them and different facets catch the light, they vary in tone, texture (like black velvet) and colour… "Cyril Barnett, ‘Souza/Geoffrey/Rao’, from ‘Studio International’, London. May 1996 rpt. in He.Mum/15.11.97, Lot 48
