‘John Stark's gothic visions are about suspending belief, and the balancing of beauty and horror, seduction and repulsion. His glorious skies and idyllic pastoral landscapes are sometimes peopled with creatures of the night, yet other times the merest flicker of something -sometimes no more than a ripple on a sea - disturbs our gaze; it might be only a tiny glitch in an otherwise perfect world, but it's enough to make us suspect this utopian reverie is more diabolical fiction than benign promise’- Jane Neal. 08
