THIS is one of the final three exhibitions at the Taylor Galleries before it takes on its new role in premises up the street. Colin Harrison and Patrick Harris will be the final two artists to appear solo in the present gallery.

Cecily Brennan has not shown in Dublin for some time now and her large exhibition in the Douglas Hyde Gallery looked slightly overblown and rhetorical to my eyes. This time she has cut down severely in scale - small, simplified, concentrated pictures, offset (or complemented?) by numerous charcoal drawings and monochrome etchings.

There are also a number of painted pieces in lead, though whether you call them sculptures or not is mainly a question of terminology. Plainly the exhibition has a "thematic" basis, which appears to be highly personal but is not spelled out verbally.

The theme of death, tombs and funeral boats is persistent, without being obsessive, and a certain ritual sense runs right through the exhibition as a kind of leitmotiv.

Another recurrent image is that of a mountaintop (someone mentioned Ben Bulben to me) reduced to a few quasi abstract motifs and laid on in thick paint. At times the mountain is veiled by cloud, at other times there are almost visionary patches of sunlight, with the force of an emotional revelation. Though these are small pictures, there is something almost grandiose about them.

Her expansive, New Expressionist phase seems well behind her now, but she retains an expressionist sense of immediacy and emotional charge. Certainly this new exhibition seems all of a piece, as if a single emotional/spiritual experience had given it birth, and it carries inner conviction as well as a sense of unity.