Laura Gascoigne. 'What's On' March 7, 2001.

Jonathan Huxley stands out from the crowd for the paradoxical reason that he paints crowds. Lowry aside, few artists since the 19th cenury have tackled crowd scenes, but Huxley brings tham into the modern world by giving them his own peculiar spin.

Huxley's compositions are the opposite of set pieces: he holds up the canvas and waits to see who wanders in. His little figures hurtling in space have none of Lowry's sense of isolation; the space merely gives them room to interact. If Lowry is depressive, Huxley is manic: his figures flail and fling themselves about ina devil dance with a weird internal logic.