 THERE are never enough galleries for Liverpool artists so one can only welcome something like Dot Art, a Liverpool-based company which exhibits local artists and sells their work on the internet. While viewing art on screen can useful, nothing really beats seeing the work in the flesh, hence this Dot Art exhibition at the Cornerstones Gallery. It is the first group show of the company run by Lucy Byrne and is very much a show of contrasting styles, from landscapes to abstracts and wall sculptures. With artists including the long-established like Peter Corbett and recent graduates, it also gives a neat overview of the state of art in Liverpool today. Lots of colour and energy seems to be the theme. Roy Munday, who graduated last year, offers surprisingly one of the more traditional forms, a landscape. Albert Dock is an Impressionist view of the waterfront with some free brush strokes capturing familiar landmarks like the Liver Building. Another landscape comes from another recent graduate Katy Rees although her Waterfall is done on a large scale in four sections, much of it dominated by a semi-abstract flowers and green fronds while the waterfall itself is in the romantic tradition. Another female artist Parabhen Lad graduated last year and her semi-abstract My Sky boasts a very blue sky above variously coloured shapes and swirls of paint. This has a fascinating nightmarish quality. Lisa Ashcroft, who has studied in New York, has a Pop Art approach in two works, Honeypot which includes comic book figures with speech bubbles, sequins and cut-outs while Travelling Solo features tourist icons like Michelangelo's David, a palm-swept beach - and more sequins. She has exhibited with Sgt Pepper album cover artist Peter Blake and his influence is there to see. Peter Corbett, an established artist for over 30 years, offer two abstracts, Spiritus Mundi and Lusina, the first featuring amoeba-like shapes, the second spaghetti shapes. Both competent pieces but uninspiring. | 
