Some of us claim to have seen the writing on the wall but it's not until you see this exhibition that you understand what that means. Rowley uses traditional materials in a non-traditional manner that enables her to communicate beyond the restraints of traditional image making. Her calligraphic works read like messages from the ethers written in the language of beauty.

The artist employs a variety of brushes to make spontaneous marks on translucent paper. The marks 'bleed' while they dry to produce soft misty lines and shapes. She then collages these stained papers onto canvases that are either pure white or washed with pale hues. In some instances, like the large Blue Abstraction, slabs of thick paint, daubs of gold leaf, and pieces of crinkled cloth are added to create a field of interest that provides the viewer with what they want, or need, in order to connect with the work.

Marks, textures, colours and collage are manipulated by the artists to produce enigmatic patterns of vitality. As they are abstract works, the viewer is invited to bring their own interpretations to each presentation. For example in Memory Lines black marks drift amid soft pinks and blues to produce a sense of contentment, while the light green and pale butter colour of Lay of the Land brings to mind the atmosphere after a gentle rain. For those who need to identify the 'subject' of a painting, the series Song Lines will satisfy as it suggests landscape. These three images offer a scattering of black brush marks held in check by a firm ribbon of pure white across the top of the canvas. The composition may be interpreted as showing ground, horizon and sky. Then again, it could be seen as tumultuous life held in balance by a sense of some higher peace.

With over 40 large and small works in this exhibition, every visitor will find something that takes them out of, or into, themselves. In my instance the two works Fire Fly and Serpent, both measuring 124 x 94 cm, held my eye and opened my mind. Each shows only the path made by a moving longhaired brush of monumental proportions. One consists of a single broad mark that makes a vertical loop while the other has two crescent brush strokes, one atop the other. As a pair they swept me away to a place where each mark of the brush has its own name, energy and soul. It's as if, when using this ultra large Chinese brush, Rowley's movement and mark making is being guided by an older spirit. Be that as it may, the credit has to go to this very contemporary artist.

Get to the gallery, see the paintings, tune into the messages of universal harmony and beauty, ask questions and find your own answers in these works of art.