"Rob McHaffie's paintings portray how we fashion ourselves, seek inspiration, fall in love, hang out, and negotiate roles in life as an artist, friend, partner and parent. They remind us that life is made of many fleeting moments and stages that are so easily forgotten during the business of living itself. 

The questioning title of this publication Do paintings get jealous of windows brings us back to the topic of painting, and its popular metaphorisation as a window onto the world around us. It also conveys something about the challenge of making a painting that the artist is happy to commit to: because the view is impregnated in the painted surface, after a certain point, there's no changing it. This is both the joy and the precocity of painting celebrated in this significant body of work." - Charlotte Day