Gathie Falk:

Each piece has a blossom and stem end, a beginning and an
end, and dents and grain as when bought at the Supermarket,
but for all that, it is not fruit: the colour is off, it is visikly
hollow, it has a musical ring when tapped, and, most
important, you can't eat it,

Richard Simmins:

Her brilliant ceramic pyramids of apples, grapefruit and
oranges transcend fashion. (Vancouver Province)

Geathie Palk:

Mounted high on clear plexiglas bases the piles are aloof,
rather ethereal apparitions.Seen close or felt, they are
homely to the eye, sympathetic to the hand. This union of
opposing qualities, the mundane and the unearthly, is not
something I strive for but simply recognize.

Joan Lowndes:

These who have admired her piles of ceramic apples,
oranges and grapefruit in home settings will be seized with
wonder at the gallery containing 21 such arrangements.
Suddenly it if an emrironment, (Vancouver Sug)

Making the pieces was a tour de force, Each fruit is hand
turned, and then the elaborately constructed mound must
be supported inthe kiln, Great tension attends the firing,
as Palk is always afrald that the fruit will roll.

After overcoming that hazard, she must accomplish two
delicate final steps: the heavy pile of fruit must be tipped
up so she can grind the bottom and glue on the plexiglas
base, She completes each pile with a sense of miracle,
yet defying the odds has gone on to make bigger and bigger
ones,

The ability to push a theme so far -the pieces range in size
from five to 196 separate combined fruits - is proof of an
artist's mettle. (Vancouver Sun)

While Barry Lord (in Artscanada) describes it as tableaus
Vivant" and others term it “still life", and even “fantasy”,
Gathie Falk makes it and calls it her art.