The Gascoigne Gallery in Harrogate introduces Artists For The Future in its new show.

Work by Richard Baker, Thomas Mayger, Sarah Myers, Sumayya Patel and Tracey Ward will be on view at the Royal Parade showrooms from this week until March 10.

Baker's paintings convey a sense of the disquieting calm that descends just before or after an event. By depicting the often mundane architectural spaces most people encounter every day, he strives to capture a fragment of something that already exists in the viewer's memory.

Mayger graduated in Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University last year and his large-scale paintings present close-ups of flowers, detailing only a small part of the flower. "My pieces are concerned with the aesthetics, concentrating on colour, tone and texture," he says.

For her portraiture, Myers "attacks the canvas and uses paint in a suggestive manner that allows the image to come through". Painting from life, she aims to portray her sensations, feelings and perceptions in response to the interaction she has with the subject and the canvas.

Patel is interested in deconstructing the materials that underpin a conventional painting and to reconstruct all these elements together to create new pieces.

Ward was short-listed for the Jerwood Artist Platform 2003. She applies ink to canvas by hand, a process that alludes to writing, recording, measuring and charting, with the aim of investigating the structure of an image and the different ways in each viewer reads a painting.

The Gascoigne Gallery is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, or by appointment.

Updated: 16:09 Thursday, February 26, 2004