A collection of the curious and delightful is a more apt title for this presentation of intriguing and elegant paintings. The colours are rich and the detail of the minutiae fascinating, causing each exhibit to grab our attention from a distance and hold our interest at close range. McFarlane's meticulous approach to the application of her acrylic medium is much appreciated, as is her ability to replicate the visage of her chosen flowers, insects and birds.

For her larger exhibits, the artist block prints William Morris-like floral patterns onto a colour washed canvas and appears to paint over aspects of the stylized motifs to effect subtle tonal variations within the pattern. Then, on these elegantly constructed grounds, small images of butterflies, beetles or a bird are precisely painted. When seen from a distance the manipulation of colour value gives the work the appearance of being made from fabrics such as velvet, satin or silk. Then up close, we feel certain the small flying creatures chose to land on the rich surface only momentarily but remained dazzled by the colour or perhaps perished from pure sensual pleasure.

Two miniature Monarch butterflies have found a home on the blue silk looking surface of Cultural Objects while a collection of their kin form a grid on the dark velvet-like ground of Family Lycaendae - Blues and Coppers. Of the large works, Navigating the Milky Way is the most captivating. Here white star spots dance over and through a nebulous cloud that floats across the night sky composed of undulating values of deep, dark blues.

McFarlane also presents small works of acrylic on board. They involve groups of related subjects on similar colour fields or patterns. For example there are three different images of a single orchid, each on its own green panel. Although they form a fine triptych, each is like a portrait and complete on its own. And there are two small panels, Southern Sky (one Early Winter, the other Late Summer) that could be a diptych as they seem to both host the same star cluster albeit, one shows connecting lines to define a constellation.

There are broken insects and fallen birds amid this collection, the damaged aspect of the works, but there is beauty to be found here too. This is a quiet yet compelling exhibition that reveals delicacy and strength and a fine command of the medium. Highly satisfying viewing.