New Exhibition at Lion Street Gallery

 I saw the announcement on Facebook, so I decided to check it out when I went shopping.

The exhibition at Lion Street Gallery is called Emotional Terrain, and is a group of works by Di Metcalfe.

I had the gallery to myself that morning, so i had plenty of time to linger over the landscapes.  The card that goes with the exhibition says: "Her work radiates energy and intensity" and it's true - you can feel the energy in the brushstrokes - or maybe she uses a pallet knife - there's a lot of texture to the paint.  Brent explained that she works on solid panels rather than canvas, because her vigorous style would make the  canvas stretch and go baggy   Most of the landscapes are places in Wales, with exuberant cloudscapes.  I liked them a lot.

Brent also displays work from a regular group of artists, and I like most of them - the interiors of historic houses by Matthew Wood, and the wildflowers standing out of a blurred background by Dylan Lloyd, and at the moment there are some green semi-abstract woodland glades and pools by Sandra Graham that I also liked very much.  The paintings are expensive, but there's a scheme where you can pay installments over several months - which makes it a far more reasonable proposition.  And they are very fine works of art.