`Awash', one of the drawings in coloured pencil on Ingres paper by Daniel C.

Dempster, forms part of the one-man show which opens this week at the Nicholas Lusher Fine Art Gallery in Hamilton.

"I am pleased to be supporting an artist who is also making a splash in art circles overseas,'' says gallery owner and director Nicholas Lusher.

"This continues the tradition of the gallery in selling works of art that are of both local and international interest.'' he adds, "I think these drawings will draw enormous interest for their technical skill, subtlety and the beauty of their presentation.'' Mr. Dempster, who staged his first solo show, `Waterworks' in 1991 at the Bacardi International Building, has since attracted critical attention in the highly competitive US since his first show in 1994, when he exhibited at New York's Fulcrum Gallery SoHo.

In 1996 his work was included in the 3rd Bienniale of Painting of the Caribben and Central America in Santo Domingo.

Last year, his `Waterworks' were shown at the Peninsula Fine Arts Centre at Newport News, Virginia, with the Daily Press describing his shoreline drawings as achieving a "startling degree of realism. It's almost as if you were standing barefoot near the shoreline, watching the water and light undulate in patterns across the sand under your toes.'' His work can also be found in various corporate collections, gracing local boardrooms at the Bank of Bermuda, the Bermuda Monetary Authority, the Masterworks Foundation, Harrington International Insurance, and in Dublin, Ireland, at G.J. Maloney & Co. and Yeoman International Leasing.

In Bermuda, his one-man exhibition `Ithuriel' was shown at the Society of Arts gallery at City Hall, while his work was also selected for the Bermuda National Gallery for their `Biennial 96' show.

Currently on show in New York (and continuing through January 1998) is `Timewrack and Tide', again at the Fulcrum, and featuring new works in copper, steel and zinc.

`Bermuda Shallows' at the Nicholas Lusher Gallery in Washington Mall will be open to the public from Saturday, November 29, and continues until Friday January 9, l998.