The cycle of life and death, the idea of regeneration, the connectiveness of nature, the body and the spirit, all these individually held and communally accepted concepts can be detected in these works. As such, Blow touches some part of our intellect or emotion with his highly complex imagery.

It's difficult to get a grounding in these paintings; we seem to travel from the rich dark realms of the troglodyte to the light bright hues of angels. It's just as well, we should let go and float from one idea to another as we travel through each composition. We should discard set ideologies and parameters and view the works as intriguing free associations that do indeed make sense.

For example, Connections is presented as ten painted panels hung more like an installation then a wall matting. In this grouping we find suggestions of rocks, plants, animals, seed pods and unidentifiable forms reaching from one surface to another without severing ties across the void. These half recognizable and unique life-forms grow from the head of one man who has eyes that look like spheres floating in space. The composition clearly alludes to the concept of a universality of all living entities, even if they exist on separate planes of reality. A very thought provoking work.

So too are all the exhibits. As soon as you think you have a handle on one idea, other interpretations begin to collect along the edges of the mind. When you exhaust yourself with attempting to figure it out just stop and enjoy the surface of the painting. Blow lays down the oil medium in short strokes with a small brush. Like the seconds of a clock tick, ticking into hours then days, we realize how these small strokes of colour build up volume and space, shapes and ideas. All colours are employed with attention to their tonal weight to offer yet another, rhythmic layer of interest to these images.

The artist works well in both the small and large format. There is no loss of potency in the smallest work and no defusing of detail in the larger ones. This can be noted in Light to Dark 3 where we view an idyllic background landscape through a line of distorted foreground trees. The first and second images of this series are smaller yet each holds an equal sense of the surreal.

There is a certain spirituality drifting through Blow's images, if you discover it, despite some of the tortured forms, you'll find the exhibition is an uplifting experience.