Din l-Art Helwa, Malta’s National Trust, is holding an exhibition of oil paintings by Isabelle Borg at 133, Melita Street, the 17th century casa nobile which is the headquarters to the organisation in Valletta.

While Isabelle’s earlier solo landscape exhibitions concentrated on the theme of Malta’s constructed coast line, this exhibition of Maltese Landscape has been inspired by a number of views of Malta’s natural scenery. Here, the fusion of the elements of land, sea and sky, have as yet, been barely intruded upon – and the powerful presence of nature still overpowers. Through the process of painting in oils, the use of colour and line evoke an understanding of the landscape from reference to drawings made directly from observation, combined with an imaginative and sensual memory.

Isabelle Borg is a Maltese artist who was born in London and educated in London and Malta. She worked as a graphic designer at Decca Records in London before graduating in painting at the Camberwell School of Art in 1986. She returned to Malta in 1988, gaining an MA in History of Art at the University of Malta where she has taught Art full time since 1994. During a year to concentrate on painting landscapes in Ireland, her painting found its expression in natural forms and atmosphere.

The exhibition, which will be inaugurated on 28 April, will be open to the public daily from 9am to 1pm from 29 April to 26 May and is in aid of the Din l-Art Helwa Restoration Project. It is sponsored by The Farsons Foundation and Marsovin, local companies that support the arts in Malta.