Weekend Gallery: Press Releases Elise Allan Hazel Brook 15 March - 20 April Elise Allan’s paintings are full of vibrant colour, and busy with intricate patterns created by the use of forced perspectives and sharp contrasts between shadow and light. And yet, the overall effect is to evoke fresh, peaceful space. These paintings have a Mediterranean feel that induce memories of relaxed, sunshine filled holidays. More... Pamina Stewart 25 April - 1 June After watching the build up of discarded shells on the table of a French seafood restaurant, Pamina Steward felt a compulsion to use them in her work. Previously she had been manipulating toys to make installations, with a special preference to foreign varieties such as the Pokemon characters. Now, in seashells she had found objects that held their own fascination through their beauty and in the histories of the creatures that used to inhabit them. More... Gordon Robin Brown 6 June - 13 July Gordon Robin Brown’s homepage is headed by a review from the Glasgow Herald that describes his work as “vast paintings combining fish and fowl, flora and fauna, in bright colours, as though Hieronymus Bosch was designing sets for Balamory.'' This is no flippant comparison as Brown delivers on the promise, with gleeful disorder and charming anarchy. More...