Mathew Vieira

"Vieira focuses on the figures lack of emotion yet intense concentration whilst engaging with a screen. Watching their bodies lose contact with the real world; their faces become zombified as their minds delve into this parallel universe. Vieira then re-enacts this intense engagement when
creating his paintings.

The gaze is a very important aspect to the work as it plays with the interaction between figure and the audience. Allowing the audience to observe these creatures with out disrupting them.

On occasion Vieira has a subject intensely starring back at us, but their stare is blank and ice cold, as if looking through you.

Vieira's figures are often captured on the move, in transition and outside of their comfort zones. He see's these spaces of transition as a gap that people feel they must fill in their everyday lives. With the Internet available in everyone's pocket, it is being accessed at every possible moment."

1st May to 31st May

Debbie Ayles

"I am interested primarily in lines and the patterns and spaces in between. Architecture offers a limitless variety of opportunities to create work based on linear descriptions.

As an evolution from my earlier series of paintings concentrating on dilapidated East Anglian Barns, I have recently been inspired by other types of buildings. A commission to paint Lloyds of London for a client made me look at other structures from modern office blocks to historical sites, buildings undergoing restoration and 'new builds'. These have resulted in a number of paintings where scaffolding has been an important part of the composition.

The structure of the building underneath and the support network of the scaffolding enfolding it offer an increased complexity. This complexity carries over into my drawings where I emphasise various qualities such as patterns, angles and shapes. The next stage is the painting. I find that some lend themselves to pure linear treatment with a subtle background formed from a simplified detail of the main building. In others I use a complicated mosaic of pastel colours to solidify the structures and reduce the strength of the lines. "

1st June to 30th June