Laurence Owen uses painting to mix the mythic and the mundane. Alluring yet unsettling, each work contains a world filled with hollow pleasures and veiled truths, depicted in a style that looks deceptively na•ve. He sets up familiar landscapes and renders them strange by adding disturbing details. Sometimes adult and often odd, these details belie a cock-eyed view of things that is both bizarre and amusing. His work has a logic of its own and a freshness of colour uncommon in oil painting. Dissonant and alien yet pretty and familiar, it presents a suggestion of what may lie beneath whilst creating an imagery of delicacy and depth.