Out of the Shadows, Malcolm Sparkes, Christ Church

Certainly, the 40 or so works on show testify to a keen eye for the play of light on even the most everyday objects, or to an impish sense of humour - or, of course, both. The pieces are all small-scale, in a remarkable variety of media - oil, watercolour, pencil, ink, chalk, on board, paper and canvas. And they are homely' - some, indeed, painted in the artist's own home. Furthermore - uniquely in my experience of gallery-going - they are hung in a themed sequence immediately accessible to the viewer.

The first works you encounter - welcoming glasses of white wine - make you think this is Aedes Bacchi not Aedes Christi: one is indeed titled In Praise of Bacchus and this bibulous theme recurs in the saucy Bottoms Up (an array of empty glasses) or the finely rendered Decanter - the latter incidentally executed in watercolour pencil, a medium which allows a very delicate line and detail. Malcolm chooses it for several pieces, including some fruit and flower subjects and the cheekily-titled What life is not. So what is it? A bowl of cherries, of course.

This irreverent humour runs throughout, in the largest piece on view for example which shows his (presumably) kitchen cabinet a jumble of brushes and paints, with a crumpled duster and a dangly end of string poking beyond the picture-space on to the frame. A very Renaissance touch. As well as the fashionably fetishistic montage of Shoes, he has fun with chalk in Chalk Wash, where a miscellany of kitchen gear - graters, colanders, knives - lies in the sink. In more serious, or conventional, mood he shows accomplished still-lifes of eggs and fruit, always with a crumpled cloth, reflecting light in unexpected ways. There are intimations of mortality too in the pencil sketches of senescent leaves, especially of horse-chestnut and maple. The show runs till May 13, 10.30am - 1pm and 2-5pm, weekdays; 2-5pm Sundays.