For his new exhibition at The National Trust's fine art Gallery at Trelissick, Mike Hindle has followed an ancient route across Cornwall, St Michael's Way. A pathway route trod by countless numbers of pilgrims from St Ives Bay across to sheltered Mounts Bay before departing on their long journey to Santiago di Compostella in Spain and St James' shrine.

However, this is also a modern journey, a continuation of Mike Hindle's journey as he explores the themes that fascinate him as an artist. Viewing these paintings many thoughts will run through your mind, contemplation, a search for balance and harmony, a joy of accumulated discoveries as a landscape reveals itself, a feeling perhaps that 'as far as your eye can see' is not the end of a journey but just a beginning. Perhaps those early pilgrims had similar thoughts.

What is without doubt is that these are intelligent, thoughtful paintings.