WHILE the Liverpool Biennial has given us a cornucopia of art in Liverpool, it is pleasing to find that the region's smaller commercial galleries continue on their own individual ways.
Typical is artroom, a fairly new gallery on the promenade at Parkgate, where a new group show featuring artists, both local and regional, has opened.
Some nine artists are featured in an exhibition which has no particular theme.
Among them is Alexandra du Gard, who paints quite large works featuring birds in trees, seen in silhouette and graphic-like in style.
She is unafraid to use background colours like pink and orange.
There are also smaller works, with birds on rooftops and rather more atmospheric.
Michael Horgan, Wirral-based but brought up in East Africa, has recently returned to art and his memories using oil pastels and wash and ink.
Tsavo offers a colourful collection of animals of different types, which is quite hypnotic.
Nature is apparent in Lauren Deakin's abstracts using a combination of techniques, untitled but with one at least boldly displaying a real autumnal leaf while Carys Bryn, despite titles like Pebbles, is really abstract, her extravagant touch swirling numerous colours around her canvases in joyful abandon.
