“As a painter, Avery taught me to ‘lighten up’, in all senses of that phrase; to see potential in the most ordinary subject matter, to make use of what is around me and see the lyricism of those opportunities; to not show off, to “tell it slant”. I think of him as the painting equivalent of Erik Satie, whose quiet attention is focused on the undramatic, the liminal and in-between spaces, the small things, the unheroic. Like Satie, Avery does not try to make big important statements. And he is all the more radical for it.’

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