harness. One of the first exhibitions to be announced is the Arts Centre at Dockyard's show which opens on September 20.

As its title suggests, `Driven to Abstraction' is aimed and encouraging artists to try a different approach to their work. "We hope this theme has encouraged them to try something different and, if Bermuda for instance, happens to be their subject, to try and treat it in a different way,'' says curator Julie Hastings-Smith.

Explaining the Arts Centre's policy of featuring certain artists who are not subjected to the jurying process, Mrs. Hastings-Smith has announced that Canadian Pamela Holl Hunt and Bermuda-based Marita Idh-Gauntlett have been chosen for this show.

After studying at the Academie Julian and Atelier 17 in Paris, Mrs. Hunt attended London's Hornsey College of Art and then studied decorative art, after which she studied art history in Brussels. After her return to Canada her first solo show was sponsored by the British Columbia French Cultural Centre.

Mrs. Ida Gauntlett, who describes herself as a multi-media artist, is a Swedish national who, before her arrival in Bermuda, was given three solo and four group shows in Scandanavia.

`Driven to Abstraction', a juried members' show, will run from September 20 through October 30.

'Moving works' by Marita Idh-Gauntlett