An abstract art exhibition representing the beauty and vulnerability of Malta’s much-celebrated coastal landscape.

In her third solo exhibition titled Mewġa (this being the Maltese translation of the word ‘wave’), Rebecca Cassar explores her life-long fascination with the sea, the shore, and all things blue and sandy.

Cassar’s signature abstract style, now synonymous with the bold use of colour, texture and 23.5 karat gold leaf, comes out in full force to represent the beauty (and vulnerability) of Malta’s much-celebrated coastal landscape. The works on display – consisting of over 20 pieces employing varying media on canvas – are in essence an ode to Cassar’s youth, with many a day spent at sea with her grandfather (a then retired captain of the British Merchant Navy).

Years on, Cassar laments the gradual degradation of marine life, using the exhibition as a platform to highlight mankind’s disruption of this delicate ecosystem. Mewġa is a metaphor for the wave of change required to prioritise the conservation of Malta’s landscapes and marine biology generally.