THIRTEEN artists have contributed to the Sligo Art Gallery's self explanatory group show Watercolours, and the resulting exhibition offers a good cross section of form and approach to the medium.

Nick Miller has provided three large seascapes in which the artist's typically muscular brushwork creates a powerful and dynamic statement, most notably in the atmospheric Downpatrick Stack 1996.

Thomas Ryan displays an assured touch in his landscapes, which capture an ethereal intangibility in their depiction of light, as in his Martello Tower and Gizra. Anna Marie Leavy's flower paintings at times display a rather illustrational turn of phrase, her unrestrained large scale study Summer Anemones shows fine, confident brushwork and a pleasing depth of colour.

On the most abstract side, John O'Leary's Lough Gill series finds both muted Fauvist tones and an understated. but notable composition in Lough Gill, Hazelwood L Barrie Cooke's two small Gold River paintings display an intriguing muddy translucence but fail to ignite. In Autumn Light I-III. Fiona Wallace presents three small abstracts which are contemplative, intimate and effective colour compositions. And finally, Cormac O'Leary has produced three strong, luminous works in Nightlake I-III and a fine, densely intense and vigorous Seascape.