Celia Borg Cardona stares at people and then turns them into works of art.

Her paintings are on display at Gallery G, in Lija and the exhibition will run until November 29.

In her last exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Mrs Borg Cardona depicted people in the streets.

The new collection consists mostly of oil paintings she calls "people watching". Although she paints people, her paintings are more about the tension, or atmosphere, that a group of people can create. She endeavours to pick out unusual perspectives and, with her typical style, assists the onlooker to focus on a particular person or group. She does this in a variety of manners most apparent by applying detail to the point of focus the artist would like the beholder to focus on.

She may leave the periphery of, say a crowd, as a simple sketch, and increase the level of detail as she draws the onlooker into the focal point of the painting. This automatically makes the person look at the face or group of faces of her subject.

This is not the only way Mrs Borg Cardona trains the onlookers' eye. She also does this with her play on light or with her use of colour.

The exhibition is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday and between 9.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. on Saturday.

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