In el Salahi's enamel and oil painting, this interest in the sculptural is expressed through use of heavy impasto.

It has often been observed that Merlin James's solo shows look like group shows, and this twenty-year survey proved the point, with a full range of painterly genres--seascape, landscape, portrait, erotic, interior, still life--on display, as well as variations in style ranging from dark impasto on misshapen, detritus-strewn canvases to smoother, Fauvish studies.

I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass .