Philip Archer's new work is a drama of shadows and feints, reflections and glimpses - in oil paintings inspired by marketplaces and oil pastels rooted in the landscapes of Le Langhe, Piedmont. Both the paintings and the pastel works arise from the artist's characteristic practice of what Simone Weil called 'attention', to people and to places, to shifting patterns of light and shade. His methods are attentive too. The oil paintings emerge from a long, patient process, adding thin layers of paint repeatedly to achieve a fine balance of colour and form. He is a master of oil pastels, a medium invented for Picasso by his art materials supplier in Paris, Sennellier. The pastels distil his subjects into tight, intense forms, often framing the landscapes of Le Langhe with the geometry of a loggia on the borders of inside and outside worlds. In the paintings and the oil pastels, Archer's dramas of figures and shadows, of people at work or in contemplation, explore the borders of the material and the transcendent.