This show's starting point is a painting of  Dante's great love, Beatrice. For the poet of the Divine Comedy Beatrice represents more than earthly beauty, she is an allegorical figure of beauty itself that  points the way to an eternal truth. ‍From Dr Caroline Kaye's introduction to the exhibition;‍ Viewing Eugene de Leastar's work is to be invited to participate in an exilarating journey of thinking and truth. Look around at the works. Can you believe your eyes? The paintings confront and challenge us with precicely that question. How do we know what is true? Where are we going ?And who points the way? ‍While the sculptures relate to the figure in isolation, many of the the paintings deal with an image within an image. The role of the artist is a thematic allegory. He appears as a priest and a clown, but more often a fool than a philosopher. The religious paintings seem to be of a more traditional nature but still evotacive of that perennial search that inspires some art.‍In her concluding remarks Dr Kaye notes;‍ De Leastar recognises the importance of art as a process of discovery. In a sense, one paints to find out what one has painted. Additionally, this means the viewer makes some of these discoveries....‍(he) offers his audience a collection of modern paintings par excellence where the only true radicalism is to build upon  an artistic and religious tradition. We might understand that as an urge to conserve, or we might recognise that we are in the presence of authentic conceptual art.