'Three of the strongest forces in the genre of Charles Blackman are the world of literature, the lost domain of childhood, and women. He is pursued by images that have constantly arisen from these sources. Of these most powerful invocations, the image of women is perhaps the strongest, such that he has painted women in a fashion rarely ventured by other painters.

Unique is a word he does not like, although he admits that what he attempts to paint is 'virtually unpaintable.' His paintings of women reach the emotions, the dreams and the inner world of the female psyche…'¹

1. Amadio, N., Charles Blackman: The Lost Domains, A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty. Ltd., Sydney,1980, p. 32