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The ‘melted image’ or tachiste paintings by Elizabeth Durack are a continuation and development of the theme in which human beings and the environment interact — ‘a deeper and harder (though always compassionate) way of looking at man and nature ...’.

Randolph Stow, Comment in catalogue essay, September 1961

The works ‘fuse linear outlines with fluid hydraulic forms of floating colour to produce controlled Rorschachs ... their emotional impact is considerable.  They make an important contribution to the solution of the Australian landscape problem ... The human being is in these paintings, as he is in Australia, almost by accident. But once in, he is in to stay, and in to dominate even the most inimical sort of emptiness ...’.

Patrick Hutchings, ‘Pictorial Taschiste’ in Westerly, June 1963