Aidan Dunne was one of a remarkably talented generation which studied at the National College of Art and Design in the early and middle 1970s - some would even say, the most talented since the second World War. He has, however, been reticent about showing his work in public, and this is the first one-man show I recollect seeing by him.

The first and immediate impression is that he shared in the revival of abstract painting which happened about that time, after the fever of Pop Art and the new Figurativism of the 1960s. Dunne keeps to the "all-over" technique which the Abstract Expressionists had emphasised (de Kooning is the most obvious example) but he does not rely on improvisation or the sheer suggestiveness of paint and brushwork per se. His paintings bear the stamp of real thought and a pondered approach. In general he keeps to low or middle-range colours, often with a preponderance of grey and neutral tones, but with an inherent luminosity breaking through the paint. The shapes are "organic", rather like clouds bunching together in an overcast sky, but with sudden, almost stabbing incursions into stronger tonalities. There has been a lot of hard, considered thinking here, and plainly many of these pictures would stand repeated viewing, since they hint at more than they immediately shout into your ear - or rather eye.

This, however, may suggest timidity and playing safe, whereas the overall impression is one of confidence and a close rapport between a generalised approach and the original subject matter. These include everything from a stone-quarry to a pool, but all have gone through the crucible of an individual imagination and have come out transformed. The result is all of a piece, and is both coherent and convincing.

Recent Paintings By Aidan Dunne is at the Temple Bar Gallery until August 27th