Like many painters these days, Trevelyan Clay mixes visual motifs and languages from a variety of sources. Some belong to high art and the painterly tradition .... Others belong to popular culture and mass media. ... The images are anything but casually conceived, or randomly spontaneous, built as they are from a complex layering of self refrence and critical irony.

exceprt from Spendin' Time on an Image, written by Russell Smith for the CCAS Studio Residency Program/2005 published by CCAS, Canberra December 2006