Five female artists in one exhibition

Currently running in St Julian’s, Chroma sees five Maltese female artists coming together under one roof. Curated by Joe Hamilton, the participating artists are Megan Borg, Charlene Agius, Bridget Borg Alden, Stephanie Borg Cachia and Luella Beck. Borg, the youngest of the Chroma group, is a self-taught artist experimenting with different mediums and style. She has recently turned her focus to digital, painting directly on to computer. Her work, inspired by characters and stories she creates, focuses mainly on portraits and the human figure. Gozitan Agius hails from an artistic family with her father Mario, a renowned sculptor of wood, and her brother Victor, another multitalented artist. A teacher of art and geography, she works mainly with acrylics and a recurring theme in her works is the sea with its fluid and agitated nature which translates into abstract and semi-abstract form in her works. Borg Alden is the niece of renowned Maltese artist Harry Alden, an icon of modern art. She is now focusing on the raw quality of hard edge and portraiture. She favours the tonality of green as one of her other passions is nature. Her versatility also spreads to the sacred, which can be...