During the last fifty years John Kiki has developed a rich figurative language that encompasses a fluid abstraction along side a changing caste of characters borrowed from Greek mythology, history genre paintings, and his own observations of how people interact in daily life.

"John Kiki is a very unusual artist. Unusual, not for his clear and immediately recognizable way of painting, but because he emerged, painting in his distinctive way, when he left art school fifty years ago."
Keith Roberts, John Kiki: Fifty Years in the Figurative Fold