"Constance Payne is a painter and a person of great intensity. Her work grows directly from a close emotional attachment to both subject and the painterly process. It may be that the observed subject and the means to bring it into existence as a painting is inseparable for her. She emerges as a model of the dedicated painter, a person who somehow in a time that makes such things difficult, creates paintings free of cant, show, and false erudition."

-Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, Art Critic