‘The paintings have an immediacy and playfulness, a sense of individuality and a mesmerising kind of power. Gathering them together with the work of current painters, from the youngest—Cassaria Young-Hogan— to the eldest, Stanley the Legend, and those in between, laying it out all akimbo on my living room floor (there is never time in the studio to think quietly), the synergies between generations is obvious. The interweaving between grids, flowers, loose and tight brushwork, between families, ideas and iconography, was as palpable as jazz.’