Audette is one of the two or three greatest abstract painters Australia has produced; perhaps the very finest. But even saying this, I am aware that no one country ‘produced’ her wonderful paintings. Like any highly intelligent creative artist, she has had the quickness of foot to learn from the growing points of culture all round the world. Into her vitamin-enriched paintings have gone diverse elements of the European abstract tradition, along with other strands from American expressionism. Even Velázquez has played his part – when he was needed. Yet the result is not some uncertain mélange but an idiom that is entirely her own. Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 2014