"In Saether's art we are once again free to choose rather than be coerced into response: the paintings reveal their secrets through a painterly
music that offers more than one path or passageway for the viewer. One is aware of the alchemy of paint and pigment, of the abstract play of forms
emerging and disappearing into light and shadow, and of the linear rhythms that echo throughout the whole; but also one senses an invitation
to enter into the spell of beings, places and events which beckon to us mysteriously from a world almost like our own, but where the paradox
of existence and the drama of being, when penetrated, become a banquet of love in which the opposites confront each other in a dance of beauty
and passionate striving."

Excerpt from: Charles Coffman: "Jan Isak Saether: A Figurative Painter of Our Time." December 1990. (Unpublished article.)
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