Sanded Arm reveals a group of dense pen drawings rife with notations, criss-crossing arrows, bits of tape and drops of paint. I make these ‘thought-drawings’ to plan my paintings and in that sense they are preliminary. In another sense they are everything: the paper space where I draw out my language of biomorphic abstraction. On some pages there are meaty shapes that expand like muscles, on others there are gnarled forms that morph into hearts. And on several occasions, twisting ropes bind the parts together.

The first time I saw Victoria’s paintings, at Broadway Gallery, I thought she was painting “things” – her drawings, though, point the way out to feelings, instead, each ballpoint pen mark giving more and more warmth. -Dan Nadel