Artist Leonard Sexton has obviously spent a great deal of time observing the fluid marine vista of Balbriggan and his native Skerries. The results speak for themselves in his Harbour Scenes, heavily reworked oil on canvases which are a restless as the irish landscape the artist is transcribing. Each canvas, composed of heavy and colourful swathes of paint, captures the ever-shifting and dynamic panorama of the ports in question.

Despite the layering though, the paintings are far from impenetrable and it’s possible to make out a trawler bobbing up and down on the choppy water or a series of jagged masts lunging like telephone masks into the murky sky. There are echoes of Jonathan Kingerlee here, particularly in Harbour Scene 2, with its greyish wash of paint tempered by splotches of yellow and blue. And Sexton clearly holds the same affection for the saeside view of north Co Dublin that Kingerlee holds for the landscape of the Beara Peninsula.

Sexton’s triptych of female figures, Towards a presence, is aptly titled; the ethereal female form in each is all but obliterated by a hazy mist of blue and pink arcs; this suggests the central figure is in a series of flux and that her form is a process rather than an end result.

The artist has recently become a father and the influence of parenthood is apparent in Mother And Child. Like his previous images the piece is heavily layered but parent and infant are clearly visible, the young mother smiling towards the child held in her arms, making a simple and affecting tableau. Sexton has been touted for some time as the next big name in Irish Art, and perhaps with this exhibition his ship may finally come in.

Daragh Reddin