Theo Michael was born in Cyprus, left for London as a young man, and returned decades later with a painter's eye sharpened by absence. These paintings are the result — Cyprus seen with both the intimacy of someone who grew up here and the perspective of someone who left and came back.

The collection moves between the vivid colour of the Mediterranean — beaches, harbours, bougainvillea-draped walls, colonial architecture bathed in afternoon light — and the quieter world of monochrome: historical paintings that reach back into Cyprus's past, its old streets, ancient monuments and the people who shaped the island.