A pair of young artists will show their artistic creations in the Edinburgh Gallery, at City Hall, today.

Newcomer Michelle Lindo will debut with paintings inspired by Hurricane Fabian.

She said wherever she went she has always carried a sketch book with her.

Ms Lindo believes that there is always something in nature to capture, first on film and then in a painting.

William (Billy) West has returned home from university and in this exhibition he is showing the process and the discipline of drawing.

He said he went to an art show in London which featured some of the world?s top artists and the exhibition specialised purely on drawing.

From that experience, he decided to draw twice a day, for only 20 minutes at a time to see what creations he could come up with.

Ms Lindo, 20, is showing her work for the first time and she has used the medium of Indian oil for her crafts.

She said:?I am not a full time artist like Billy, but I make time for it.

?I bring my sketch book wherever I go and I always see things and also I love taking pictures and stuff like that.

?I try and use everything, right now I have been using a lot of pastels because they are easier to lug around and I think I will get back into water colours, but for this show I have been using Indian ink.

?It took me a year to do this project and it was just after Hurricane Fabian all the trees were dead and everyone was in a bad mood.

?It was like this grey cloud over us, but it was fun after the hurricane, it was like Robinson Crusoe.?

Ms Lindo said she had a bunch of kids for a week after the hurricane because they were out of school.

?Those types of experiences and travelling and stuff like that really adds to your art,? she said.

?I worked at the golf course at the time and I would see these trees and that?s when I decided to look at textures and not so much at colour and shape.

?I took loads of pictures and let it develop in my head.?

Mr. West told her that she would need to have at least 25 pieces completed for her first show.

?I think with working a full-time job that I couldn?t have completed enough pieces to fill the whole room,? she said.

Meanwhile, Mr. West was away in university and he was organising the show from there.

He said: ?Originally it was going to be Michelle and another person, who shall remain nameless, but the other person backed out.

?I wanted Michelle to have a show, but having had shows before, I know it is difficult and you just can?t jump in on the deep end and have a solo show especially at the Society of Arts, where your art is going to be seen by so many people.?

Mr. West said they decided it was going to be a drawing show because when he was studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, he went to see an exhibition.

?It was a drawing show and I knew that Michelle and I had this show coming up, so I thought let me go and check it out,? he said.

?There are so many different styles of drawing and when I saw it, it just blew me away and there was no clich? drawing in the way that they took it.

?These were some of the top artists in the world and it was inspiring to think about what is drawing and to take it back to its roots.?

He said the themes of the show are that Ms Lindo?s art is the product of drawing and his is the process of it.

?So we are just exploring two different veins,? he said. ?Most artists will draw to get to an idea and some will draw for the piece.

?There are so many different ways and I need to articulate my ideas.

?Drawing is such an interesting thing, you can draw on your book and I think everyone draws.

He said his work is the process of an idea and it is a kind of a conceptual piece.

?It was a drawing every day for eight days, twice a day for 20 minutes a day,? he said.

When asked if he would be showing 16 pieces he said he would not as he missed a day.

?I have 15 pieces and it just explores discipline and process,? he said. ?It is very non-representational, but it?s meditative and it almost works out to be a calendar.?

Mr. West said it was a difficult task to get people to really like his work when it was not traditional.

He said: ?It is accessible and you don?t need to like it ? just consider it.?

He said there had been a lot of controversy recently about the arts, but his work was really about discipline and relationships with marks.

?Some are very light and some are very dark,? he said, ?If it is a darker mark people tend to think that it is more aggressive and it is because if you look at it from an art history point of view it is drilled into our minds that dark means this and it can be happiness.

?Even a piece of fruit in a piece meant something. It is all about the mind, how you relate and interact with art work.?

Mr. West said every piece is dated and each day he did one piece in the studio and one at home. The ones in the studio are marked with a symbol, which represents the studio.

?So the time that they are done and the date will decide where they are placed or mounted, so I have no say in their composition,? he said.

?Whether a piece is done or not is always a question, but it was timed because there is always that argument ? whether a piece is finished or not.

?And I find it interesting because some of them I looked at the clock all the time and the more I looked at the clock the more I did, and that?s what I find interesting.

?It is not the most interesting thing, but I find it quirky.?

The 19-year-old artist?s work was done in pencil, coloured pencil and graphite.

?It should be a good show,? he said, ?It is very visual.?

The exhibition is running alongside the Big and Small Show in the Onions Gallery.