Landscapes, seascapes, cloud studies and still lifes are among the subjects Katherine Zuill has been capturing for her exhibition of recent paintings, which opens this evening in the Edinburgh Gallery of the Bermuda Society of Arts.

Mrs. Zuill is passionate about her painting. In Bermuda she spends as many hours as she can at the easel of her customised studio, but when she travels she takes all of her art equipment with her and paints every day.

She has been preparing for her new exhibition for two years, since the last one, in fact, and will show 37 canvases. Many of the landscapes will reflect places she has visited in the interim: Tuscany in Italy, Provence in France, the Napa Valley in California, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

"I have an apartment on a 200-acre farm in Wayland, Massachusetts, and I love painting around there, the views up to New Hampshire are unbelievable, just beautiful, " she says.

Mrs. Zuill's style varies according to the mood she is in, some of it being "pretty representational" while others are "looser". Viewers will notice mostly palette knife work this time around.

"Actually, I used my fingers and the palette knife, and then a little bit of brush work," she says. I am the messiest, dirtiest painter God ever created, but I passionately love it."

• The official opening of 'Katherine Zuill Recent Paintings' is from 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. this evening, following which the exhibition will continue through January 30, 2008.