It is just five months since Andrea Carter had her last solo exhibition, but this energetic and enthusiastic artist has an ongoing love affair with her easel which just won't rest ? and that, of course, is good news for the following she is steadily developing.

Beginning on Friday, art lovers will have a fresh chance to see what Mrs. Carter has been up to in the interim when 'Hallowe'en and Then Some' opens in the west gallery of Masterworks in the Botanical Gardens.

A free spirit who draws inspiration from any and everything, this artist's paintings are a collective expression of her vivid imagination.

Landscapes, still lifes, flights of fancy ? all are fair game for her busy brushes. Indeed, her work is unfailingly thought-provoking, and sometimes challenging, and this new show promises to be no different.

"A couple of paintings will lean towards surrealism ? my pet subject ? while others will be quirky or classical," Mrs. Carter says. "I go across the board from flowers to monsters. Variety is my theme; I don't like to get stuck into a corner. The way you paint is the way you are, really."

The artist, whose medium is acrylic on canvas, promises that while most works will be "new to the eyes", she will also include "some reworked paintings".

Of Eastern European and Spanish descent, Mrs. Carter has studied at the Latvia National Academy of Art under Professor Aleksjes Naumovs, the Bermuda College Fine Arts Department, and privately with well-known Bermuda artists.

Her active life as the wife of deputy governor Nicholas Carter means that her influences are as wide-ranging as the countries in which the couple have lived.

Mrs. Carter has exhibited both as a solo artist and in group shows at the Globus Gallery and Grand Palace Hotel, both in Riga, Latvia; and locally at the Bermuda Society of Arts, the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard, the Kafu Gallery, and Masterworks.

'Hallowe'en and Then Some' will continue through November 2. For further information see the Bermuda Calendar.