I am not sure when it was that Lexy Correia first decided to leave her old, safe, employment and enter the more insecure Bermuda art world, but when she did, she did it with incredible enthusiasm and energy. Suddenly she seems to be involved in just about every art event and her name is cropping up all over the Bermuda art scene.Despite her apparent omnipresence, however, quite a bit of time passed between when it was I first became aware of the name Lexy Correia and actually meeting her. It was during an Art in the Park event in Somers Garden, St George’s, this past August, that I came across a young woman who was creating unusual, rather surreal, but somewhat abstract paintings. They caught my attention and so it was that I eventually met Lexy, thus linking her name with a face and artistic image.I was away from Bermuda for much of the autumn, but while I was away, I tried to keep up as best I could with what was going on in the Bermuda art community. I recall reading that Lexi was involved in one or maybe more group exhibitions. However her current exhibition at the Bermuda Art Centre at Dockyard is her first solo show and since I am now back in Bermuda, I was able to attend the exhibition opening.The surreal, somewhat mystical approach to imagery, is obviously her preferred subject matter and in her current show, such structures and sculptures as Stonehenge or the Moai of Easter Island and even the depictions of that debatable phenomena, crop circles, are typical of her interests. The exhibition is called, The Elements.In addition to the above, Lexy has devoted one wall to paintings of stars, planets and constellations. These brought to mind, for me, those highly detailed drawings of the heavens by Vija Celmins, a New York-based artist from Riga, Latvia. It is said that Ms Celmins takes close to a year to do even one drawing and the effort shows in that even small and close changes in light tones are all there. This is a difficult subject, but one that is full of awe and mystery. I remember as a child looking at the night sky through a telescope and seeing the rings around Saturn and being overwhelmed by the sense of deep space and the minuteness of earth in comparison.I am not sure that Lexy Correia has achieved that awesome mystery that her subject demands. Still, her efforts in that direction are commendable and I urge her to keep at it. All these interests are worthwhile and will be rewarding, as she continues to pursue this course.The exhibition continues through December 30, 2011