Rupert Muldoon paints using the ancient medium of egg tempera – exactly as in Uccello’s day - with which he captures moments of wind and clouds on leaves and water. His technique of building paint up in scores of transparent layers, each new stroke allowing the previous one to show through, produces a vitreous or enamelled effect. And yet his forms are always suggestive of movement and the fugitive effects of light. On their own terms, they are entirely believable; even when the forms are completely abstract, they seem arboreal or aquatic. Recently the subjects of his paintings have become, in both senses of the word, more reflective, and the spirit of place has grown stronger.