Witchcraft, Recent works by Kendra Ezekial, Jean Rodriguez and Fiona Rose Rodriguez at the Bermuda Arts Centre, Dockyard.

I'm not too sure what the title of this show is. The invite I received in the post presented it as `Witchcraft' while the programme sent to be by the centre's curator, Shona Ashmore, announced it as `Something's Brewing in March'.

The confusion is perhaps appropriate. Although this exhibition features the work of just three artists it's an eclectic mixture nevertheless.

If these three ladies see themselves as the three witches of Macbeth then I'm sure it is Jean Rodriguez who is the senior sorceress, for it her work that dominates the show, both in terms of quantity and quality.

Like the medium in which she works, Mrs. Rodriguez Sr., a former art teacher I understand, (Fiona is her daughter) is a very versatile painter.

The exhibition comprises mainly her acrylic works. Some are ambitious in scale, some not, some, commissioned by the doting parents of young children, have a not-surprisingly fairy tale quality about them, others are abstract.

Some are humorous while one is certainly a bit shocking. All in all a good mix.

Two of Jean Rodriguez's children's pictures show off her imagination, technique and expertise as a colourist to brilliant effect.

`The Teddybear's Picnic' might not be Damian Hurst but then again I'm sure it was never intended to be -- unless the parents of whatever child it is intended for have a particularly sadistic bent.

The complex composition of a group of teddybears sitting on a mound of luscious grass around a blanket laden with cakes and fizzy pop is beautifully handled and the colours simply sing out. The backdrop of stark trees adds an almost sinister aspect -- always an essential tool in any nursery rhyme -- while the fur of each Ted is beautifully rendered.

The composition of "The Owl and the Pussycat'' is altogether simpler but the painting is nevertheless rich in texture and colour with clean, flowing lines.

Rodriguez's ability to depict fur and feather are again beautifully portrayed as the two animals set out on an imaginary sea in a boat of the peaiest green you could imagine.

After taking in those two it's a bit of a surprise to come across "Torsos in my Closet'' -three figures -- or rather grotesquely animated swimsuits -- of varying proportions hanging on a rail.

Painted in lurid shades of green the three naked figures at once remind you of both the unsympathetic eye of British painter Lucien Freud and a butcher's abattoir. A teddybear's picnic this ain't.

Maybe it's some sort of statement about a middle aged woman's battle against an ever-expanding waistline, a critique of society's insistence that all women should be the perfect size 8. Or perhaps Mrs. Rodriguez really does happen to have a selection of decapitated, limbless rotting carcasses in her wardrobe and thought they'd make an interesting conversation piece. Whatever, it's certainly a compelling image.

`A Frog Waiting to be Kissed' is an unusual composition while `Sophie's Pods' shows of the beauty and simplicity of nature.

Jean's daughter, Fiona Rodriguez, has two pieces in this show, "Brooms'' -- made from handspun flax and natural "swear to God found them on the ground materials'' and "A Tribute to Dr. Suess'', the children's author famous for his Cat in the Hat books. I don't really know what to say about either of these two pieces apart from the fact that I enjoyed the accompanying rhyme to "A Tribute to Dr. Suess''.

Similarly Kendra Ezekiel has submitted a number of installations made out of handmade paper which didn't exactly get my pulse racing.

Whatever the name of this exhibition, it's open until the end of next week and is certainly worth a visit.

Gareth Finighan