Two artists who work in completely different ways have joined forces to show their paintings at the Broad Canvas Gallery, in Broad Street, Oxford. What you see as you reach the top of the narrow winding stairs of Broad Canvas are faces, large faces, and pictures of people, walking, sitting and just being. The individual faces are highlighted in some and the colour of the sky in others.

Geoff Clifford, who is studying art at the Oxford and Cherwell College, Banbury, paints faces by combining the painted image with computer, printing and transfer materials, which when used together lead to a multi-layered transparent image. One series of three faces combines just two colours, bright red and blue, another showing four faces uses yellow and red to make its statement. His aim is to show the human face through various forms of portraiture in a quest to discover the underlying personality and character of the person.

Yorkshire-born Granville Heptonstall relies on random events to make his statement. He's interested in the relationships of apparently unconnected phenomena, working on the principle that everything in the world is connected. His pictures connect people with the scenery around them, as in Red Sea (detail above) Although the subjects in his works appear separated from their surroundings, they are in fact locked into the world they inhabit.

New Paintings remains on show at Broad Canvas until Friday, August 3.