In her work, R. H. Quaytman displays great interest in the dissolution of the image. Her works are typically the result of research that creates links with the historical context of the exhibition space, and take place within her larger body of already existing work, which is grouped into chapters. Quaytman's investigations in the photographic archives of the institutions who invite her, are used as source material for the imagery in her paintings. Screen-printed onto wooden panels, in dimensions that respect the golden rule, covered in gesso, reframed, enlarged, sometimes sprinkled with diamond dust, they possess an ancient quality.  Expressing the progressive disappearance of representation takes various forms; the artist attempts to freeze different temporal strata on the same ground in order to blur visual perception.