Marsa-born artist Ray Piscopo has just announced his second exhibition in the space of four months. The showing will include 13 paintings that bring to life scenes from the past, with goat herders, donkey-pulled carts, religious processions, niches carved from limestone, and harvests in bountiful fields being represented in a semi-abstract idiom.

“Malta’s past has to be remembered in one form or another. Indeed, the passing of time might have changed the Islands’ scenery, but our memories of their beauty and of the way our forebears lived do not need to,” the artist explains.

The paintings are in Piscopo’s latest style; with beiges and browns setting a rather nostalgic tone, while specs of brightly-coloured oil paint remind us that there is hope wherever we look for it.