'Laura Daly's ambitious paintings are in an Abstract Expressionist manner. Yet there the resemblances cease. Often spectacularly large, they propose difficult colour combinations, feathery brushstrokes that seem designed to irritate and an unexpected monumentality. Drawing on the unacceptable face of the 50s - Annigoni or Tretchikoff as much as Newman and Rothko - she is not afraid to irritate, explore and even offend.’

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'Laura Daly's ambitious paintings are in an Abstract Expressionist manner. Yet there the resemblances cease. Often spectacularly large, they propose difficult colour combinations, feathery brushstrokes that seem designed to irritate and an unexpected monumentality. Drawing on the unacceptable face of the 50s - Annigoni or Tretchikoff as much as Newman and Rothko - she is not afraid to irritate, explore and even offend.’