Windjammer Gallery this week.

The `Three' are the artistic Evans family, and the `One' is Halen Daniel, who married the Evans' son David last August. So, legally at any rate, it is four Evanses who will be displaying their considerable joint talent at this, their first combined show.

Says Mr. Vaughan Evans, "There's a book by E.H. Gombrich, entitled `The Story of Art,' which is a best-seller and in its 15th edition. It starts with two unforgettable sentences: `There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.' For me to even start to consider myself an artist is bold enough but to be head of a family all producing art for a group show is mind-boggling and exciting all at the same time!'' Ever the family man, Mr. Evans says he feels "very rich'', having his "nearest and dearest'' all working together for a common goal. "The luxury of having your family behind you as you do artistic battle with a banana patch is wealth indeed. In some ways, the actual day spent on location with all its itinerant problems of walking the dogs, carrying all the equipment needed, is really the fun -- the actual drawing and painting is merely an echo of high living.'' Does this artistic family all work together? An amused consultation here, as they wander round the Gallery, preparing their work for hanging before the exhibition opens. They finally decide that while the two senior Evanses go off together quite often, the juniors rarely join them.

"I like to work on my own,'' offers Helen, although they all agree that they talk endlessly together about their work and "we find views for each other to paint.'' They admit, though, that apart from David, they have all done a series on bananas, and have included several `series' paintings.

"Even David's lino cuts are a series, because he based them on the effects of the tides at Devonshire Bay.'' Mrs. Amy Evans, who met her husband in their native Northern Ireland while they were still at art college, has taught all age groups in Bermuda, including ten years at the Bermuda College in the Fashion/Art/Continuing Education programmes and five years at the Bermuda High School for Girls.

Now, she is working full-time at her art. "I have been painting all year, experimenting with different effects, cooler colours, as on Nonsuch Beach in the winter. I have done landscape and foliage pieces, but with a change of scale -- more close-ups and far-away perspectives. I've been lucky enough to paint some views that I've not been able to paint before, and tackling some different subjects. I suppose you could say I've been working hard at NOT painting the obvious!'' Mrs. Evans is also well-known for her monoprints, embroidery, applique and batik work, with three large batiks gracing the lobby of the Grotto Bay Hotel and a nine-foot watercolour triptych for the reception rooms. Her work is in several corporate collections. "It's very fulfilling to be able to work at my own art each and every day, after spending 27 years teaching others! It's amazing that I have the chance to do what I love,'' she exclaims.

Vaugan Evans spent a decade at Whitney Institute before he became the senior art master at Saltus Grammar School. In this capacity, and as a past President of the Bermuda Society of Arts where he served for three years, Mr. Evans has been a leading figure on the local art scene. A versatile artist who paints in oils, watercolours, and pastels, he is also well known for his prints, pottery and photography.

Both he and his wife were invited to show their work in the 1991 summer exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall Galleries in London and his pastel, Cave Pool, was one of four chosen to represent Bermuda in the Carib Art Exhibition, sponsored by UNESCO and now travelling the world for three years.

For this show, Mr. Evans says that with his nine pastels, he has tried to communicate, in visual terms, his enjoyment of a few special places very close to their Bailey's Bay home: "It takes me a long time to build up an image that's finished and that works. Restricting myself to topic and media has given time for my slow-working method to develop.'' David Evans, who was born in Bermuda, became Head Boy of Warwick Academy ("We didn't think it a particularly good idea for father and son to be together in the same school!'') and then graduated in Architecture from Manchester Metropolitan University. He is now working with a local architectural firm to obtain his RIBA accreditation.

His work reflects that architectural background, with several pieces from a year's project undertaken for the Bauhaus project in the former East Germany.

He has also done a series of lino cuts that represent the ebb and flow of water "and the energy that takes place where they meet.'' The Bauhaus pieces, he says, demonstrate how the building and natural features of a landscape become one: "You look at the two together so that the `marks' I put on paper could be either one or the other -- it might represent a building or a stand of trees.'' David Evans met his bride at university. "Actually, we met as I came out of the shower,'' laughs Helen.

Since she started visiting Bermuda in 1989, Helen Daniel, who describes herself as an artist/designer, has already established herself in Bermuda with a diverse range of work. Graduating from Manchester with a degree in Textiles/Fashion (Embroidery), she then obtained her Master of Arts degree.

Her work has been exhibited all over Britain, and at the Commonwealth Institute in London and in Hungary. Her banners adorn the main library staircase at her old university, and her quilts and panels have been commissioned for several UK hospitals.

"I was so fascinated by the colours when I first came here,'' she says, "I am putting small gouache paintings in the show. I've only been painting on paper for about a year. I did everything in sketch books before that -- even now, I do it on a pad and then tear it out. They're small, because I only have a bike, and have to carry my gear around. I did huge stuff at college. But I like the intimacy of a small work. I now have a garden on my own, which is amazing, after living in a flat in the city for so long. I love it!'' Three Plus One opens to the public at the Windjammer Gallery on Friday, May 6 and continues through May 21.

THREE PLUS ONE -- Helen Daniel (left) joins her husband David Evans and his parents, Vaughan and Amy Evans in their first family art show which opens at the Windjammer Gallery this week.