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Christopher Wood achieves something remarkable. Colours and abstract marks - moments of paint - coalesce into recognisable instances. These are truths that are seen and felt by the artist and then shared. It might be a breathing sea, a cliff revealing ancient reds, or the smell of scurvy grass as the tide recedes - all made more powerful by the poetic language of abstraction.

These latest twenty paintings reveal Christopher Wood to be an artist in full power. They are works that endure well beyond the first gaze. They are paintings that sing an ancient song.

Water and pigment has held a lifetime fascination for Peter Davis, and the sea too. That has always been close. Davis's present studio is by the sea in Shetland, facing west - next stop America - and for many years he has studied its endless play of water and light.

Peter Davis' approach, with its methodology and experimentation, is both scientific and artistic, but it is the artistry that we remember most. The miricle of something so vast, captured in a small framed object, is a wonder that makes Davis one of the most innovative masters of the watercolour medium anywhere. 

We are pleased to share with you five fresh works on paper, along with the first showing of a new series of more abstract watercolours on canvas.

Patricia Shone is one of the finest ceramic artists anywhere and we are pleased to share with you seven new vessels. In this collection, Shone's time-honed skills conjure up woodlands, or maybe bark, in vessels that could have arrived here in the gallery, not in human time, but in earth-time.

Drawings have an immediacy and can connect the thinking mind with the tangible world. This is Lizzie Rose's secret. Her world is a connected one - where oak roots join air and sea reaches to meet the sky.

These latest thirteen painting include ink drawings, mixed media paintings and plant-based acrylics.