These paintings have a lyricism with the colour saturated surfaces rhythmically dancing to some celestial melody full of vibrance and deep reverence. Zofrea’s paintings of Australian wildflowers have a spiritual radiance that grows out of a sense of freedom with the artist surrendering to the spirit of the moment. They are an old man’s paintings, in the same way that we may speak of the late works of Titian or Tintoretto – they are large scale, dynamic and expressive paintings where the artist, with many decades of art practice behind him, paints purely and without constraints. As Zofrea recently observed, “Now I’m in my seventies, I am doing my best work … I’m in love – I come to make love with my work and tap into the impossible. I never paint to a formula, I love scale.” Sasha Grishin, 2025
