Green is the theme for the latest members’ show at the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard.

Achieving the right green can be the bane of artists’ lives — mixes can be either overpowering, or dull.

Green is bound up with evocations of spring and as a metaphor for hope, rest and renewal.

It is an association not missed by Rhona Emmerson in her thoughtful oil, New Life.

A mighty and broken tree trunk dominates the picture and a new limb thrusts from its centre carrying a small but eager canopy as the tree springs back to life. She modulates the sunlit field on either side of the trunk well, both in hue and tone.

Heidi Cowen expresses the idea of renewal well in one of her five miniature oils entitled, Arboretum. She chooses the form of a ruined building with a burgeoning new roof of night-blooming cereus as nature takes its hold.

Otto Trott handles green confidently. The soft green foreground of his oil, Castle Island, slopes gently towards tranquil turquoise water and across to the rocky outcrop of Castle Harbour. Interestingly, and perhaps surprisingly, Otto Trott and Chris Marson are the only artists who attend to the greens found not only in the landscape but also in the turquoise water all around us.

Trott utilises a warm orange sky in Palmetto Sunrise as a temperature contrast between the foliage and sky with a resultant energy to the green.

Jacqueline Murray-Hall exhibits energetic still life in her acrylic, Green Peppers. She strengthens the impact of green, like Otto Trott’s sunrise scene, by the accompanying yellow-orange for the riper hues of the pepper. Lisa Cano-Rowland and Vaughan Evans use line well in their work.

The latter’s watercolour, Dancing On the Green, is light in spirit but heavy on shade. The rather unfortunately placed shadows beneath the dancers appear determined to remain long after the festive frolic has ended.

The well-composed portrait, Green Eyed Girl, is, for Cano-Rowland, the cynosure of all eyes: she reserves colour for the girl’s eyes alone to describe the richly patterned irises.

There is a definite preference by the artists in this show for muted green-browns over fresh and crisp verdant greens of the island. It leaves the dynamic variety of subtropical greens largely unattained.

The Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard is an asset to the artistic community in Bermuda and is also home to several working artists’ studios. The convivial gallery brings artists together through its varied workshops — either to discover a new technique or to hone their skills.

Green runs through April 15.