Harry More Gordon

For his tenth exhibition with Francis Kyle Gallery the distinguished Scottish watercolourist Harry More Gordon has assembled a new body of still lifes and flower paintings, enlivened with a typically startling range of disparate elements. While every flower he portrays explosively asserts its identity with absolutely no self-esteem problem, (Rhoda Koenig), in the still lifes More Gordon's almost wicked accuracy of observation joins forces with his sense of humorous fantasy to give a narrative edge to even his most guileless subjects. In the busier compositions the variety of incongruous objects he brings together - cups, feathers, fruit, fabrics, puppets - seem poised to link hands and perform a kind of metaphorical conga around the picture surface.