Kok Wan Lee and Friends returned for another colourful Series Show.

Aside from Mr. Lee, the other artists participating are Sue Grass, Peter Lapsley, Antoine Hunt and Julie Hastings-Smith.

The show runs until May 26 at the The Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard.

Ms Grass said the show contains ten mixed media pieces from her new series ?Desire To See (What?s On TV)? plus two paintings from her ?Night Drive? series.

?I?m continuing on with both series,? said the artist.

?The subject matter is a little different this time, but my painting style remains consistent. The paintings in the Desire To See (What?s On TV) series were inspired by the imagery of scrambled cable TV channels. I?m interested in the transient nature of these images, the idea of not being allowed to view them, the general struggle to make visual sense of an abstracted image, and also in that these images represent a slightly different approach to figurative painting.?

The works are mixed media on paper, plus two acrylic paintings on canvas.

Peter Lapsley says for the past two years he has been working on a series entitled ?The Crowd of One?.

?The works in this show were born out of a collection of work I did for a show on ?Tolerance?, which was held in conjunction with an exhibition about the life and story of Anne Frank,? said Mr. Lapsley.

?The works involved a figure of a silhouette meant to represent humankind as both individual and group, which I found the blind portrait of a silhouette could successfully achieve.

?Using this iconic figure and repetition ? another area of interest I have in art ? I began this series.?

He said for the Tolerance show he repeated the figure row upon row and randomly focused on three members in each piece. The intention was to highlight the arbitrary and uncomfortable manner in which we as a species select and discriminate against various groups.

?From that point on I have continued my exploration of the Crowd of One Series using the figures in various compositions to represent the relationships that we each have with groups, crowds, families, individuals ? are we part of one or another, are we in or out, comfortable or uncomfortable, welcomed or repelled,? said Mr. Lapsley who has been accepted to Parsons School of Art and Design in New York for their Masters in Fine Arts Programme for September 2006.

?The works are meant to be interpreted by the viewer based on his or her own experiences and so, when asked what the piece means, I can only answer that it is up to each individual. Having said all that, I must make the point that my images are also just that ? pictures that I create and find visually interesting.

Mr. Lee?s works in this show are based on a group of chefs, with whom he is working.

?Basically, I transferred their personalities, character and attitudes into a painting,? he said.

?Maybe, I could name them as a portrait ? for example, chef Bernice, she is a tiny Oriental girl, who makes a lot of duck spring rolls in the kitchen. So, I painted a picture of her in a tiny pear with a duck hanging at the top.

?I used pears as a subject matter because they have a similar shape to human beings. Especially, I used charcoal to describe my portrait in different angles of the pear.?

Using photography, video and sculpture was Mr. Hunt?s means of expressing the way he sees the world.

?This and every thing that I do is part of my project ?Natures Children?,? Mr. Hunt said, ?It is a life long project, which consists of three separate disciplines: photography, film and sculpture.

?The concept behind the photographic project is simply to photograph the world, not as separate places and territories but as one unified global ecosystem.

?A system we do not ?seem? to appreciate for what it is ? the life that gives us life!?

His photographic work consists of images taken all over the world. ?These images evolved over the years from only images of nature to portraits of the many interesting people that surround me,? he says. ?This body of work effectively illustrates my observations.?

Mr. Hunt?s sculpture began with semi-abstracted human figures in bronze and has evolved into the very euphoric process of carving stone.

?This has evolved even further with the forms that come to me taking on the wonderful abstract shape of the plant life around me. Mirroring the images I have etched in silver and ink.

?The film projects evolved from my photographic images. There was a natural progression into moving pictures in order to tell a more complex story. I am now working on a series of documentaries exploring the idea of Bermuda as microcosm of the world and expanding this idea of a microcosm to show how the society that is the world is linked.

?As my views and understanding have changed so has this project, it is an extension of me and has developed and evolved as I have.

?There is no separation of my art and what I do every day.?

Working in a series of threes allowed Julie Hastings-Smith to explore a subject, a shape or a concept.

?I often use the triangular shape which obviously comes from the ?Bermuda Triangle,? she said.

?You will see series of threes in the pieces on show and often in my wall hangings forms are included in threes.?

Her ceramic pieces have been burnished, bisque fired, smoked and then sealed with wax.

?I love the random marks that are made by the resin from burning vegetation,? said Mrs. Hastings-Smith.

The Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard is open daily from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Admission is free. BAC is wheelchair accessible.