“The garage – as idea, as device – has proved a continued part of Blom’s practice. A prolific painter, many of his pictures are necessarily consigned to a box under the studio couch, to the storeroom, to a warehouse, that is out the way. Where some are forgotten, others ferment; their charge all the more apparent on finding them again. Still more follow a restless path, going “from table to floor to drying rack, to pile, back to table – collecting layers of marks along the way, before maturing into something worth nailing to the wall.” No longer wooed by impasto paint, Blom works in thinly applied pigment and oil stick, pursuing a novel flatness, which lends his pictures their more moveable form. The paintings, made on unstretched canvas, offer themselves to be rolled up, stacked, left in piles and otherwise neglected. Unlike his earlier works, they submit to rough handling.”