At the Firenze Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea in 2003, this is what eminent art critic of Florence and New York, John T Spike said when he reviewed this 1994 drawing called A Taste of Honey : "This is erotic art. Christopher Leach has great fun doing these drawings. He is stronger in the black and white than in the coloured work. He does erotic drawings a' la Beardsley. Technically fine, he provokes and challenges with these fetishes." Although he also commented that to be another Beardsley I should substitute spontaneity for stability and not give the viewer so much, he went on to say that looking at my work brought him back to his childhood when they had a Beardsley book at home. He himself studied it extensively. Later I thanked him for the kind review and he added that he would not have said I was an excellent artist and draughtsman had it not been true.