Art exhibition by Elisabeth Saguna

An art exhibition featuring works by Elisabeth Saguna is being held at the Barumbara Art Café in Mgarr, Gozo.

With a combination of chemical crystals, biological structures including animal cells, visual light effects, dyes and stains have helped to produce the works presented in this collection of paintings.

Following last summer's successful exhibition, Elisabeth Saguna has participated in a number of activities including the first Annual Art Competition, organised by the Malta Society of Arts in December and an art exhibition organised by the Malta Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce which was held on the Trade Fair Grounds, Naxxar last July.

Her works have also been featured at the Cleland and Souchet, Portomaso during an all-women artist collective exhibition as well as at the Music Rooms International in Swieqi.

Completing her scientific studies at University, Saguna decided to attend the Malta School of Arts in Valletta were she obtained a diploma in Fine Arts. Here she studied painting techniques, under the direction of Joseph Mark Micallef and the history of art with Emmanuel Fiorentino and presented a dissertation entitled "Music and Art". She also followed a course in microscopy in Germany which helped her develop her abstract style and intermingle art and science in her works.

This month she will also be holding another personal exhibition at St Rita's Priory, St. Julian's (opposite Bay Street).