Lots of caffeine and sugar would make a good combination to view Stella Shakerichi's abstract art now on display at Rock Island Coffee Shop. The brightness on the scarred, white wall at the back of the coffee shop virtually yells out with colour.

There are seven paintings of various sizes irregularly, and appropriately, spaced on the wall. Sometimes the closeness of a piece of art clashes with another and at others it complements it.

Clashing is the orange and pale purple of 'Tangerine' exploding next to the lavender gingko-like leaf/flowers on a black background in 'Wallpaper One'.

This is balanced by 'Wallpaper Two' not quite directly below it with its leaf/flowers a pale indistinct blue accentuated by red on a black, black background. Balancing off 'Tangerine', and some distance below it, is the similarly designed 'Lime' in bright to pale greens, alternating blocks with lavender, purple to garnet.

Both look as if they were created by drawing circles upon circles to create blocks to colour in. Most of us have done this as children but Ms Shakerichi takes it to high level. The lines defining the blocks in 'Lime' are red, and especially stand out and up from the canvas tempting me to run a finger along them to feel the texture.

The names of the paintings are fun. A large painting with similar gingko-like leaf/ flowers and a few more traditionally shaped small gold flowers on a navy background with large blue balls, is called 'Louche 2'.

And one with vertical squiggly lines coloured differently on each side, is called 'Angels'. The most fun name though, has to be 'Flowerbubbles' ? nothing in it looks like flowers.

There are circles, pale to darker turquoise, on a purple background. Dribbled over everything in what looks like a random way, is thick white paint in more circles and part circles and dribbled lines of paint.

There are several paintings similar to this one, two of them are called 'Moonflowers'. In each of them more thickly applied white dribbles are the focal points and smaller colourful circles are almost obscured.

'Starflowers' is a similar painting but very different. There is white dribbled paint but also a lighter blue that is smudged, feathered and worked into a magenta background.

Again there are smaller circles with different colours and white centres. This painting is vibrantly alive. 'Enigma' is very purple with what looks like bubbles of various sizes and colours floating in it.

'Mandala Magenta' and 'Mandala Mauve' are two smaller paintings that are easy to overlook. They are much quieter in tone, as well as size, but have an intensity of their own taking the constructed mandala form into the abstract. Close up the texture of the canvas is obviously an integral part to the paintings. The defining lines seem like webs with the centre focal points corresponding to the painting names.

Complimentary colours then move out from the centre. 'Time and Tide' is also vertical squiggly lines painted different colours which seem to pulse psychedelic.

Colours are pastels with oscasional bright orange and a bit of red. Looking at it for very long is unsettling. Also vibrantly alive are two paintings called 'Floral'.

These canvas are wonderfully bumpy and uneven with lots of paint. The background is a very deep magenta. There are fun squiggles throughout the painting in a magenta-like pink circling around purple spirals that are almost lost in the darkness.

The smaller coloured circles on this canvas stand out in bright lime, and even light blue. These paintings by Stella Shakerichi will be on display at Rock Island Coffee Shop through the Spring.