"Kotsonis' nudes are clinically observed. Cool is the word, keeping their distance while they look out to sea. It is as if they were holding their power and thinking a lot. Kenneth Clark said of Raphael that his nudes come close to antique art without pedantry and the same could be said of Kotsonis' pictures. Belonging to the antiquities of Paphos yet very much alive. Their distancing gives a timelessness, and yet they are distinctly modern. A second glance back at the artist's seascapes and the background of his nude pieces demonstrates that this Cypriot artist is as much involved with space as abstract artists such as Pasmore and Heron. The areas filled in with blue to evoke sky or sea can stand as non - figurative formal laminals as well as a spatial surround for the central figure.

In rock and seascapes the artist captures a certain yellow light, which is particular to the Middle East. This bounces off the bumps and crevices of the rock formation giving the impression of folds. They then allude to Byzantine drapes giving a springing energy to his placid forms. Paphos, where Kotsonis lives, is a district with distances and the contrasts in light due to the nearness of the sea radiate a quite aggressive spatial mood in a viewer unless he can distance himself. And this what Kotsonis does. He allows our eyes to roam over these extraordinarily beautiful female bodies as the eyes take in the Paphian shoreline, sea and sky, wandering over every subtle mound like an eagle gliding over an Aphrodite rock of eternal marble. His nudes are stoic, unavailable and permanent. His portraits watch us with eyes deep in concern"

- Glyn Hudghes