A NEW exhibition depicting the restrictions of movement and confinement is opening this week.

The 'Three Miles Square and a Windowsill' exhibition opens at the Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery at Symondsbury Estate this Saturday, July 24.

The exhibition combines the works of Corrina Cooper and Andy Rollo, two painters whose creative practice engages with the everyday, the fractured and broken, the beauty of nature, colour and light.

Corrina Cooper is an abstract artist residing in the south west and Dorset artist Andy Rollo’s work focuses on the formal elements of visual language and the act of looking and responding to our world.

Their still life and landscape paintings explore the juxtaposition of abstract and realist elements. The exhibition runs from July 24 until Sunday, August 8.

The work exhibited in ‘Three Miles Square and a Windowsill’ was produced during the pandemic and consequently reflects the restrictions of movement and confinement within small spaces, and a renewed appreciation for everyday items such as a shelf, a vase or a windowsill.

A spokesman for the exhibition said: "Covid-19 has been devastating and life-changing for the entire world and ‘the everyday’ has considerably changed.

"Although the world may be fractured, that society, as we knew it, may seem broken, there is always hope. Cooper and Rollo exemplify this hope in the bright, strong composition of shapes and colours of their paintings."