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Euan Macleod is an artist who makes sense of his surroundings through his work. Having accompanied my father on countless trips over the last 27 years I am struggling to recall a single one where his art materials did not come out, often within the first hour of arrival. He doesn't need a studio; a sketchbook and biro will appear on the passenger seat of the car or in a café, pastels and paper overtake hotel balconies and beach towels. And these were just the family holidays. On trips with other artists, with a full range of materials at his disposal, he will paint canvas after canvas, managing to acutely capture the spirit of a place that he has only briefly inhabited.

Euan is never in one place for long. The works in 'Exploration' draw from trips taken over the past year, throughout New Zealand, Italy and Australia - from Haast's Bluff to the Aeolian Islands. At the same time they are of "no specific place." Back home in the studio, he may recall elements from his many travels and include them in one work, resulting in the often otherworldly places that feature in the paintings. These are spaces of extremes, landscapes that have been pared back to their essential forms as heightened atmospheric conditions or striking geographical formations take to the fore. Rushing rapids are juxtaposed with arid deserts, glaciers with fire. Save for a dinghy or two there are no built structures, suggesting lands outside of history and of time.