A new exhibition entitled 'Primary Colours' opens at the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard on Sunday with Kevin Morris and Edwin M.W. Smith as the featured artists.

Mr. Morris, who works mainly in acrylic, will show some smaller pieces, but his main piece, a poster-sized work, will be in his usual style: multilayered and dense with imagery. It will include boxed or outlined cut-outs of photographs and words. As always, the collage of ideas will challenge the viewer because its wealth of detail means every time one looks at it, something new is seen.

In keeping with the show's theme, Mr. Morris has used a predominance of red, blue and yellow in his pieces - something he admits was "a bit of a challenge" because his work is traditionally executed in a multitude of colours.

Although participating artists have been given a free rein to interpret the show's theme as they wish, Mr. Smith has deliberately stayed away from "the obvious". Instead, he has focused on the meaning of the theme, which he defines as "beginnings, foundations and basics".

"I took it personally: what about my beginnings and my foundations as an artist?" he says. "My primary school was Ord Road, now known as Paget Primary, my art teacher was a Mrs. Simons and art was my favourite class, so my pieces will combine fabric and acrylics."

Cut and torn pieces of various primary school uniforms form the background to his pieces, on top of which he first added a wash and then painting abstracted line drawings of primary school students on top - in primary colours, of course.

Declaring himself "very happy" with the end results, Mr. Smith, who is a senior lecturer in the art and design programme at Bermuda College, says that, while he has worked in the past in acrylic on Masonite, the inclusion of fabric in his nine pieces reflects his aim to do something a little different each time he exhibits.

'Primary Colours' will run from May 18 to June 27 at the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard. See Bermuda Calendar for further details.