f traditional landscape painting is what appeals to you, then the Sheilagh Head exhibition at ACE Gallery is a ?must see? show. Her paintings are an impressionist?s view of Bermuda.

She is currently showing 33 of her vigorously brushed and colourful oil paintings and, when at her best, her paintings are a joy to behold, but this type of painting is risky.

Mostly her energetic brushwork provides a sense of liveliness, but in a few cases, her brushwork got too energetic, resulting in compositional disintegration.

The show is beautifully and simply framed. Because of space limitations I will highlight the paintings that stand out in the show.

There are additionally, many other paintings that are a feast for the eyes.

Several of Mrs. Head?s Hamilton Harbour paintings are notable.

I thought her ?Lower Ferry? appealing and generally well composed, but I was not sure about the purple roof of Casa Rosa. Since the house seems to be in sunshine, I wondered why the roof was in shadow, especially when under the eaves, there appears to be a cast shadow. That certainly suggests that the roof should be in direct sunlight.

?Across the Harbour,? is also a painting of the Lower Ferry region. ?Bently? is the most prominent house in the painting and is of a warm salmon hue.

The colour of the house contrasts beautifully with the complimentary blue of the harbour.

This painting is compositionally straight-forward: one enters the painting from the left and exits from the right. Colour-wise, it is well balanced, especially in terms of warm and cool, however, I thought the colour of the water more approximate than factual.

Indeed, in her artist?s statement, Mrs. Head says that she is looking more for ?the memory than the figurative reality?. I suppose this also applies to her selections of colour.

?White?s Island? is another attractive painting of the Paget shore. It appears to be early morning, for the houses are shadowed by the Hill, blocking the light of the rising sun. On the left, the water shimmers in the light that shines through a dip in the hill.

I wondered though why the sea at that junction should be purple, but concluded that this must be Mrs. Head?s favourite colour.

Indeed, purple appears somewhere in just about every painting in the entire show.

I actually surveyed the exhibit to see if I could find even one painting that did not have purple somewhere. I found one and possibly two.

At the back of the exhibition, there are three paintings that are notable.

The most prominent of these pictures is ?St. David?s Morning?. On casual viewing, I thought it a splendid work and apparently Mrs. Head did also for it is the cover illustration on the exhibition invitation, but on closer inspection, I realised that the horizon on the left was slightly but perceptibly higher. Despite that, it is still a splendid work.

Immediately to the left of ?St. David?s Morning? is ?Dancing Trees?.

That too has difficulties. There is a ruined house in this painting, which appears to be sliding downhill to the right.

This effect is fortified by the rendering of the water, which appears to be sliding downhill to the right as well.

The house in ?Spring Morning in Somerset? has a perspective problem.

The house is so positioned that two-point perspective is required, but the right side of the building appears to converge to a vanishing point on a horizon line of a different level than the one on left side. This results in a building that seems about to split apart.

Just outside the entrance to the gallery is the only painting in the show that is not a landscape.

It is an abstract entitled ?Dance?.

The dominant colours are orange and blue, but with additional colour accents, such as shocking pink and violet.

The brush strokes help create a dance-like rhythm.

The gallery, although not large, is of pleasing proportions and its pale yellow walls are especially suitable to Sheilagh Head?s paintings.

Additionally, the exhibition arrangement has been carried-out so as to not only effect a balance between the different sizes of work but also to create a pleasing rhythm around the wall.

Danjou Anderson, the show?s curator is responsible for this thoughtful arrangement.

The gallery is located on the ground floor of the ACE Global Headquarters building, 17 Woodbourne Avenue.

The show continues through December 22.