The great Catalan painter, Joan Miró once said: 'one needs a profound sense of one's own surroundings to produce something truly universal'. Brian Blanchflower's intimate knowledge of his immediate surroundings in Western Australia as well as his passionate curiosity for the processes of nature itself, have combined with his intelligence and rigour as an artist to produce one of the more important ?uvres to emerge in Australian art.

While his immediate environment has been essential to this development, he has also been inspired by ancient standing stone megaliths in Britain and the relics in certain Aboriginal sites, because these objects, while not normally thought of as art, nevertheless contain an intensity of spirit and life force.

He is one of those rare artists whose concerns deal with major issues in nature, spirituality and the cosmos head-on, in a profound, enlightening manner which allows the viewer to explore own's own inner relationship to nature while contemplating the paintings. His works inspire awe and respect in many, and some sort of powerful response in everyone.