These two artists are very different in style yet each provides the viewer with an equally high level of satisfaction. Haas presents complex images in strong colours that activate the imagination while Boggs offers simple compositions in gentle hues that promote a sense of contemplation.

The bright and busy watercolours by Haas are filled with people and props that engage the viewer. One has to appreciate the artist's drawing skills and use of arbitrary colour in these busy compositions that reference modern humanity trying to come to grips with a hectic world. A recurring theme of Trains can be found running through some exhibits, suggesting we're all either heading in the same direction or running off the rails. Consider the pale faced people crammed together in The Waiting Room, how confusion ensues when we have our Ticket to Ride, and the hubbub of green and blue faced folk at the Terminus. Although these images seem hectic, each is held secure by the artist's use of solid black contour line and rich hue.

I do appreciate the industrious lady in Track Maker and the determination of Train Man who stays on track despite a blind Signal Man throwing the switches. And the dedicated Bird Keeper who replaces birds on strings with birds on springs. I wonder if she's exchanging old for new or just updating her dreams. These and other works hint at fable like mottos; as if there is something to be deciphered in these images that will help us understand the world around us.  But then, we don't need to define a narrative to enjoy Haas's colourful look at life.

Walking down the stairs to the lower gallery we enter a quiet place where a collection of peaceful oil paintings calm the mind and soothe the spirit. Employing a limited palette and well structured compositions, Boggs provides the viewer with images that are gentle echoes of special places. Here are well defined snippets of courtyards, gardens, back streets and simple still life subjects that, in their perfection, suspend all sense of time and movement. The soft edges and muted hues in works such as Allyway, Sunday Morning and Elegy to Venice 1 and 2, hint at some half forgotten dream or suggest the surreal. However, the excellent use of light creates a sense of certainty, we know these subjects are real. And then, I can almost taste the tang of the fruit in Still Live with Small Lemon.

Both artists provide us with food for thought. See the exhibitions, take the time to enjoy the different flavours, you will be highly satisfied and fully refreshed.