Gerald Peters Gallery in New York sounded an early opening and set the bar high for the New York art fair shows with three very different, artists, two of whom are outstanding. ....



A short while ago, I reread an old piece of art criticism which said that women shouldn’t be allowed to paint (professionally) because all they turn out are sentimental paintings of children. I wish that critic was still alive to see Greta's work.



Greta lives somewhere between abstraction, concept and realism. ....



Her abstract work is an internalization of something she feels about something she sees. It’s moody, haunting and both emotionally and visually stunning – and you want to live in that place. Ergo, you want to live with that painting, whether it’s a large single panel, a triptych, an unusual horizontal diptych or one of the small paintings. Her palette can be warm, driven by coppers and reds, or cool, immersed in greys, browns and
blues. In either case, the paintings draw you into a world of smoke, shadows and rolling clouds. I covet them all.

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In sharp contrast are Greta’s small drawings of bats and birds, done in powdered graphite on paper. These are realistic impressions, reflections of these creatures. You will never like a bat as well as you like Greta’s drawing of a bat. ....