When the latest exhibition, entitled `Reflections', opens at the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard this weekend, the two featured artists will be Lee Finch and Judi Wai Yao Wong.

Although they are husband and wife, the two will present two very different artforms: photograms by Mr. Finch and silver wire fish by Mrs. Wong.

Although the duo have exhibited at the Bermuda Society of Arts and Kafu Gallery, participation as guest artists in the west end gallery exhibition is "a first". "We are excited and flattered," they admit.

Lee Finch, an art and design teacher at Saltus Grammar School, defines photograms as "photographic images produced without a camera", a process which is both painstaking and time-consuming.

"The technique involves making a room light safe, and placing large pieces of photographic paper on the floor, placing the desired objects on the photo paper, and exposing them to light.

"In my case I have developed a controllable light source to vary the amount of light dependent upon the subject matter," he says.

"I love producing photograms because when the image comes through any development it is instant. You have to put a lot of thought into every step."

Mr. Finch's work in this exhibition will be based around the reflective qualities of glass and the way that it distorts and defracts light to create "a more or less abstract image" of that object.

His largest composition is based upon Carravagio's depiction of `The Entombment of Christ', and is concerned with reflection and distortion of light around the human form.

It is the first in a series of works based upon religious paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries which he plans, including Carravagio's `Doubting Thomas' and `The Last Supper'.

The holder of a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in fine art print making and photography from Bradford University, Mr. Finch has had extensive teaching and artist residencies experience in his native Britain, and has been a frequent exhibitor in a variety of impressive projects in England, including photography, stained glass, oils and large-scale photograms.

Here he is delighted with how Bermuda's artists and galleries are so welcoming and enjoy seeing new work.

Judy Wong was also an art teacher, both in Britain and at Saltus Grammar School, prior to joining the Bermuda National Gallery as its education and programming director.

The holder of a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Applied Arts (ceramics) from the Edinburgh College of Art, she has exhibited locally at the Bermuda Society of Arts, where her silver wire and glass bead handbags caught the eye of Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard curator/administrator Justine Foster, and led to her invitation to become a guest artist at `Reflections'.

In keeping with the gallery's exhibition theme, Mrs. Wong has created a series of three-dimensional fish in silver wire. "Fish are reflective jewels of the sea, and silver wire is a reflective material," she says. "I have always been interested in fish. It is the variety of shapes of fish that is just phenomenal."

Mrs. Wong likens the intricate process of bending and shaping the wire to knitting, and says it takes a few weeks, working part time, to complete one piece. She finds the medium aesthetically pleasing, and says the outcome is like "three-dimensional drawings in wire".

"I like the idea of framework. The negative space becomes as important as the positive space," she says, while adding that she does not want to "intellectualise" her work, adding: "I just want people to like it."

Following the official opening of `Reflections' on Sunday, June 29, the exhibition will continue through August 15. For further information see the Bermuda Calendar.