The final show at the Windjammer II Gallery has opened for a brief run.

Sheilagh Head’s gallery at the Hamilton Princess Hotel & Beach Club will close at the end of the month, after six years, to make way for the final phase of the hotel’s renovation.

As Bermuda’s only commercial gallery, it has been a major asset to the arts on the Island.

It became a welcoming space, valued by local and foreign collectors and, crucially, by artists as a catalyst for their professional development.

Artists had the opportunity to be represented year-round.

The summer finale, although tinged with sadness, is more a celebration of what has been accomplished and optimism for the future.

Like all of the shows at the gallery, the paintings have been hung well and never jostle for space.

The twelve artists invited to exhibit have some fine work in varied mediums, from textile and paint to mixed media.

Kathy Zuill’s style, using mixed media, is highly decorative.

Her large-scale piece, ‘Happiness’, includes coloured paper cut-outs, a painted ginkgo leaf and thread.

It uses large areas of flat colour and, with absence of perspective, is redolent of Japonism.

Molly Godet’s watercolours are as strong as any of her recent work.

The artist possesses a unique inner vision. She explores the relationship between the Bermuda landscape and our place within it.

The brooding sky in ‘Sun Before Storm, Verdmont’ has a ferocity matched by the defiant lines of the foreground architecture at the edge of the painting.

Charles Zuill’s mixed media work fascinates. His densely textured and patinated abstracts includes ‘Algae’, which is picked out with pinpoints of rust orange.

Diana Amos is one of several artists who change their style or manner of painting between pieces. It does not disrupt the show’s flow.

She exhibits four watercolours including ‘Woodlands’ Palm’, which has typical finesse.

Otto Trott’s effective oil of the iconic Hamilton view of Heyl’s Corner is a fine study, rich with colour and shadow.

The picture has a timeless quality as the distant vehicles are made deliberately nebulous.

Andrea Bolley’s three photographs of upright shrivelled hibiscus blooms have an ethereal elegance.

Their creative titles are revealing: ‘His-Biscus’ and ‘Her-Biscus’, and may make you look again at her sensitive interpretations of the twisting, crepe-like layers of pale, almost mummified, blooms. They possess a beauty beyond the conventional association of the blossoming flower.

The end of an era for Sheilagh Head’s gallery would not be complete without her accomplished oil paintings.

The impressive panoramic oil, ‘Wreck Road’, has a tender brushwork and her rendering of form is a delight.

Flatts has been a favourite muse for her work and she exhibits a vigorous view of the village, darting with colour and light.

The sun may not be setting on the gallery’s fine tradition. Its manager, Danjou Anderson, is planning to open a select Hamilton gallery in the near future, so there is a palpable optimism for a Windjammer III.

• Summertime at the Windjammer II Gallery ends on July 30. The reviewer also exhibits two pieces in this show.