Denise Borg Millo will be holding an exhibition entitled En Plein Air at Hotel Phoenicia, Floriana from today until 28 December from 8.30am onwards.

En Plein Air is a collection of drawings and paintings of landscapes and seascapes painted on-site mostly produced during the summer of 2007.

Walking in the footsteps of the 19th century French Impressionists who decided to leave their studio to paint outside, the artist manifests her aptitude for nature, and allows her surroundings and state of mind to condition her final result. Some paintings show a sense of serenity while others reveal an expressive spontaneity.

This can be perceived in the way she applies her paint on canvas and her choice of colours. The complementary colours blue, orange, purple and yellow dominate her canvases which, even though they are at times allowed to run loose, are most of the time rapidly and heavily applied to create texture and contrast. Moreover, Denise engages the viewer in her world of inner thoughts while painting, by displaying them in conjunction with her work to further appreciate her frame of mind.