“Colour is his strength. He uses it to tell a story or to explain a given event. A dying woman reclined in a chair…pale colours, but surrounded by screaming reds, announcing the inevitable.” (Helga Zepp, the Burgdorfer Press, August 20, 1970).
“He portrays a magic world, surprising and ghostly; a world of Edgar Allan Poe, a world somewhat surrealistic and yet slightly out of focus as if in a dream, often marvelously precise and sometimes using rhythms difficult to understand.” (Germain Dezeaux “La Revue Modern Paris”, February, 1983).
“These paintings are charged with a highly individual sensibility that is very well supported by deceptively simple technical mastery. Composition is generally dynamic, further enhanced by spots of bold color and light hues emerging from the strong black surface planes. Brush work appears confident as if the work emerged from intense concentration and seeing.” (Will Trophy, A.R.T.S. Resource, San Francisco, California, August 7, 1986).
“It is highly recommended that the work of Alfred Mavers is scientifically cataloged, interpreted and made available to the art community and the public through publications, catalogs and exhibitions. This is supported by the current art history study of the work of the “Verschollenen Generation” – the Lost Generation (Dr. Kunibert Bering, Ruhr University Art History Institute, February 9, 1990).
Alfred Mavers Art 