"Galerie Roger Katwijk hosted a duo exhibition featuring Tim Ayres (1965) and Lynne Leegte (1965). Ayres presents paintings that incorporate both text and gestural abstraction. His expressive, seemingly hurried brushwork gives an initial impression of carelessness, yet closer observation reveals a deliberate tension in composition and text. The silver tones in his works shift with movement, adding a holographic depth that contrasts with their raw immediacy. Despite an almost nihilistic first impression, the paintings possess an underlying sense of comfort and presence. Ayres was born in Hastings, Great-Britain in 1965 and finished his studies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 1991. It was during his time at Rijksakademie that Ayres started painting his text-based paintings using his now idiosyncratic typeface. As in the work of artists of his generation such as Ryan McGinness and Christopher Wool, Ayres’ work is celebrated for the deconstructive use of language; through recontextualisation and isolation of words and symbols his paintings explore the workings and limitations of language."