The current show at Sarah Myerscough in Barnes, SW13,
‘Sensing Place, Three Responses’ (until April 15; www.sarahmyers cough.com), is of three artists: a painter, a creator of ‘furniture objects’ and a maker in vitreous enamel on copper, all united by their involvement with their immediatelocalities.Thepainter, Andrew Mackenzie, has focused on a small overgrown quarry and the pictures share a numinous quality with his fellow Scottish Borderer Victoria Crowe. A recur- rent motif for Somerset-based David Gates is the cabinet of curiosities and his furniture objects are conceived as frames to display other objects. Helen Carnac, also in Somerset, draws inspiration from what she sees around her (Fig 7). She says: ‘My translation of the things I see and note into made work is often not literal, but rather I find myself trying to engender something of a feeling and the framing and layers I see are translated (somehow) through my manipu- lation of material.’