“ Lately, the charged abstractions of earlier years have grown fluid and complex. Salas’ feeling for colour, and her talent as a colourist, has refined; the surfaces of her paintings are deeper, more nuanced. Regarding yellow as ‘generative’, she uses it as a way to start the work. In a recent painting, Mouth (2022), yellow, gold and umber bloom and purge from a centrifugal force, their internal life and outward effect birthing forms that are fleshy, fluid and scratchy. Mouth is a painting one needs to spend time with – and it carries the feeling that that the artist has spent time with it, too.”

Elspeth Pitt

excerpt from article in Art Collector, (104), "Undiscovered & Underrated", Apr-Jun 2023