The Fall Members’ Show at the Bermuda Society of Arts has more than 50 works, as well as craft pieces including handmade furniture.

There are fewer artists participating than in past years and many of the participants have entered multiple pieces of work.

This doesn’t hurt as often artists can suffer from overexposure and the show holds it own without the inclusion of the professional artists usually involved.

Robert Bassett and Kok Wan Lee both take part, exhibiting several large-scale works. Bassett’s paintings are expressionist in style. There’s a restless energy in his large-scale figurative acrylic paintings. In fact, it is such an anxious energy you feel the subjects will burst from the frame at any moment. In the painting Popcorn he mixes warm and cool colour contrasts well with a combination of thick and thinly applied paint — watery mixes at times. His work sometimes includes social concerns, with written slogans combined within a picture — notably in Old Money. The paintings are peculiarly date-specific, as the artist chooses to sign in capitals the day and month of their creation.

Lee explores the elemental pull of the tide in his variation on a theme, Ocean Series. Combining cool emerald green and hot accents of red, the viewer is drawn into the abstract swirling arc of broken colour.

There is some wonderful decorative work by Ann Kermode. King Triton is her most successful design, made from a range of dots laid in circles to create a mosaic-like picture. Maya Polishchuk’s large still life oil, Fiscus or Forevergreen, although strong in composition, could have been improved with some variation of size and colour to the leaves to diminish their apparent weightiness.

Lisa Cano-Roland continues her exploration of the monochrome and particularly chiaroscuro, using pencil to create some pleasing effects. It is interesting to watch the artist develop. Using black and white is the perfect way for an artist to learn about tone — the main building block creates a believable picture. Yellow Lilly sees the artist break with her preferred use of sparing colour. Here, the vibrant punch of yellow petals pops from the black background to maximise dramatic effect. Spilt Milk is a playful piece showing milk erupting from a glass. The rather rigid shared line between the rim and the milk as it overflows, needs redefining to better describe the movement.

Betsy Baillie exhibits two digital photographic prints. The Old and the New shows a classic two-masted schooner and an America’s Cup AC45 catamaran in local waters. I think uniting the old and new vessels doesn’t make for a great aesthetic in a picture: the modern racing machines with their blunt wing-like sail appear awkward when viewed next to the graceful lines of traditional sailing boats.

The pleasurable gallery visit is aided by the excellent hanging of pictures, even if the well-known exhibitors are absent. The show runs until October 11.