There are few painters working at present whose imagery so expressively combines the outward eye of the nature poet with an inner mystical vision, or whose method shows equally the experiment of the modern idiom with a deep respect for tradition.
Ivan Peries does not aspire to be a fashionable painter.

In a decade that places spontaneity above depth of feeling, he holds to a slow and reflective approach to painting which is almost mediaeval in its intensity. At a time when many young artists are celebrities (albeit ephemeral ones) in their twenties, Ivan Peries, in his early forties, pursues a painstaking creative pilgrimage that now approaches the threshold of artistic maturity.

William Graham, lecturer in Art History at Hornsea College of Art, 1965