“When people ask me, which they frequently do, what kind of painting I do I never know what to say. They clearly want a pigeon-hole to put me into, a simplistic answer to save themselves the trouble of further investigation or as a convenient entry-point as to how they should react to my work. What kind of painting did Caravaggio do? What kind of painting did Hodgkin do? Not, I hasten to add, that I put myself on a par with these two, but it does show the futility of the question and the impossibility of giving a meaningful answer. I’m the kind of painter that puts oil paint on canvas, steps back, and then puts on a bit more, until it tells me it’s finished. If pushed, and to play the game that is required of one, I would say I paint abstract landscapes. But this tells you very little.” - Miki van Zwanenberg