In 2002, Tony Shafrazi Gallery wrote in the publication Brian Clarke: Transillumination on Brian Clarke's 'Grass Paintings' series:

'The dot-like effect of the paint upon the canvas texture, and the Cezanne-esque palette of these examples may also be noted. The "petals" - again, events in a field - are depicted as through lit by a shaft of sunlight that has penetrated the gloom of dense woodland. Clarke was inspired by Martin Heidegger's observations of the weg and the lichtung, of the symbolism of the pool of light in a forest pointing the way out of a morass of philosophical complexity.'