Until the end of his life, Ralph Balson remained a highly ambitious painter. Throughout his career Balson was not satisfied in working exclusively towards producing a commercially popular style of painting. Instead he restlessly strove to interpret the experience of modernity. In 1963 and 1964 he re-examined several of his earlier painting styles including his Non-Objective series.

In 1955 when Balson turned 65 years of age he left his home in suburban Pagewood and relocated his studio to a converted double garage located on the property of fellow artist, Grace Crowley. For the previous twenty years Balson's works were almost exclusively geometric in style and belong to what a...