An exhibition featuring 200 years of Bermuda art opens this evening at the Bermuda National Gallery.

The Painting Bermuda exhibition presents works by local and international artists. The show features the changing styles within the art world.

Curator David Mitchell has organised the exhibition in two main sections, chronological and thematic. The exhibition features 19th Century artists like Thomas Driver and J.C.S. Green through to the modernist paintings of Henry Gasser, Ambrose Webster and Alfred Birdsey.

Visiting artists like Edmund Greacen and Norman Black are also featured. And the contemporary works of Sheilagh Head, John Kaufman, Charles Lloyd Tucker and Michael Swan are being shown.

More abstract impressions of the Island like the works of Caroline Troncossi, Charles Zuill and Heather MacDonald are also on show. Bermuda National Gallery director Laura Gorham said the Autumn Exhibitions are a deliberate change of pace from the juried Biennial Show, which ended earlier this month.

?Bermuda?s natural beauty and architecture has long inspired artists and Painting Bermuda allows us to take a different perspective on how the Island has been interpreted and how that interpretation has been influenced by major art movements in the world.

?It is a way of putting what at first appears to be a very local subject into a much wider historical context. ?Meanwhile, cartoonist Peter Wolcock?s works are just delightful and we are thrilled to at last be able to feature him at the Gallery.

?These works are full of wit and craftsmanship of a master illustrator, an exceptional talent that is under appreciated in Bermuda.?

The exhibition opens at 5.30 p.m. for members and 6.30 p.m. to the general public.