 Salt realised that if he was to eliminate all traces of expressionism in his work he had to record the image as faithfully as possible, and his next series of paintings – the first of his mature style – featured a series of paintings of car upholstery reproduced directly from a Buick catalogue.Alex Katz, reviewing Salt's work as an external assessor for the college, skipped over Salt's expressionist work before remarking about the Buick works "Oh this is better.This may not even be art."