THIS Mexican artist paints big, though not on the Sean Scully scale, and it needs all the space of the exhibition room in the Bank of Ireland to mount her pictures with due style.

At first glance, this looks fairly orthodox Abstract Expressionism of a familiar type, with the emphasis on texture and colour and the manipulation of paint. A little time and study bring out underlying nature themes and presences, which are confirmed by the titles Field of Wheat, Spring Water, Sky of Rain etc. These are not, then, merely paintings about paint.

They are, however, pictures in which the rhythms of the brushstrokes are an organic part of the whole. There is little obvious imagery, the treatment is generalised and with an "all over" quality, and it is left to the colour and light to suggest a specific ambience or place.

There is a great deal of yellow, which is probably characteristic of Mexico, and a certain balance of energetic movement and contemplation.

Levitation, dominated by blues and yellows, suggests sky and sunlight, but does not under line this.

A few works on paper take up the theme of the desert, using very bare and even skeletal forms. One large picture apparently refers to a visit to Iceland (of all places, for a Mexican artist) and is dominated by concentric waves of green, as dense as a tapestry.

Though the style per se is not overtly original, there is plainly a lyrical, intensely personal sensibility behind it. This type of quasi abstract painting probably owes its origin to Monet, whose synthesis of nature and abstract patterns/rhythms still remains wholly valid.