A critic of the newest Turner Award recipient said the artist's work was drab.

Even winner Tomma Abts, the first women to receive the award, said her paintings start unplanned and in the end signify nothing.

The Turner Award was created in 1984 to recognize British artists under age 50 for "outstanding exhibition of their work."

The German artist presented paintings measuring 48cm x 38cm in size. One judge said her paintings represented "compelling images that reveal their complexity slowly over time".

But Charles Thomson, who co-founded Stuckist Movement -- a group that protests the Turner Award -- said her work "deserves a prize for vacuous drabness."