"Ceiling painting on the grandest of scale flourished throughout Catholic Europe the 17th and 18th centuries. For cthedrals it became a form of instructional cinema whereby the 'volume' of the scriptures could be amplified by these enormous scenes depicting the pathway to salvation. Within palaces, mythology and genetic heroics could adorne banqueting halls. Of all the themes, 'The Apotheosis' proved to be the most challenging because they involved hundreds of figures seeking divination.  My paintings are collages of this era, a form of baroque quilt that reconstructs hybrids of my favourite artists and architecural spaces. This may not be reality, but it is the parking spot next to it."   -   Wayne Brookes 2009