In its second exhibition, QUODart brings together two artists who have recently been travelling in Asia.

Simon Parish has visited Vietnam and Karen Griffiths went to China.

The influences are similar but the results very different. Simon takes photographs and then transforms them into black ink line drawings with subtle flashes of colour.

He is interested in the unexpected rather than the archetypal and in juxtapositions that capture the imagination.

An example is his drawing of piled-up mattresses.

He says: "This tends to make people smile. It's an everyday image but there is something about the patterns and colours that are quite funny.

"It suggests contemporary sculpture, as if they have been arranged especially for an aesthetic purpose."

In his drawings, Simon filters out the essence of a moment captured on film to recapture the experience of being there.

"By going through and drawing out the important aspects of the picture the image becomes much more pared down and abstract; more detached as an experience."

The strength of these drawings led to his selection for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002.

The other part of Simon's exhibition includes Visitors to the British Museum, a series of paintings of the back of people's heads.

They are, in effect, back-to-front portraits of the unsuspecting.

Karen Griffiths, in her paintings of China, also prefers to leave something to the viewer's imagination.

She uses sketches, writing books and cloth gathered on her travels to add subtle layers to her painting.

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Preview by Sonia Reid, features@theargus.co.uk