Two Harbours is the theme of James Vella Clark’s forthcoming solo exhibition, to be hosted in the main hall at St James Cavalier in Valletta. The exhibition, his fifth major show in Malta, will be officially opened today and will remain open to the public until 6 January 2008.

“Two Harbours is the result of a two and a half year project that started in October of 2005. The main concept of this project is the dualities within us and the dualities that make up our relationships both with ourselves and with those around us. These dualities come together when our conscious self, the self as we know it, meets the actual true self. We then become conscious of other dualities too – the extremes within us – and we come to realise who we really are and who we are actually capable of becoming,” said the artist.

Paintings such as Two Gods Struggle, Two Harbours and Two Islands, attest to this concept of duality in this collection, which will include around 26 works. The collection starts from a painting entitled Immigrant Landscape concluded in October 2005, moving on in chronological order through some of the most significant paintings completed in 2006, to the majority of the collection concluded throughout this year.

In line with the artist’s Art for Charity commitment, whereby one of the paintings from each exhibition is dedicated to a philanthropic cause, the artist will be donating the proceeds from the sale of one of the paintings to the Cystic Fibrosis Fund.

More information may be found on www.jamesvellaclark.com