LONDON, UK.- 'City Intrigue' is an exhibition of city life from the perspective of four talented artists and will be on show at Signatures Gallery LTD in St James's, London from Tuesday 7th June to Saturday 25th June. The artworks range from urban realism to figurative, narrative painting and have been carefully chosen to provide a glimpse of how our modern city and life within it feeds the imagination of the artist.

Whether it is architectural beauty, backdrops for everyday life or cafe's and dwelling places for romantic rendezvous or city posing, the intrigue of the city is almost endless. The wonderfully original settings span an empty, almost sanitised interior of a diner by Courtney Miller Bellairs to Lucile Montague's skyscraper that seems to stretch endlessly into the sky in her painting 'Looking Up'. From the back view of a hunched man in John Vincent's very Hopper like interior in his atmospheric painting entitled 'Budapest' to a smouldering femme fatale inhabiting a typical inner city flat beautifully painted by Antonietta Campilongo.

Courtney Miller Bellairs is an established American artist who has been living and working in London since 1996. Courtney's thoughtful and very detailed paintings depict everyday life from a unique viewpoint; one that makes them utterly fascinating. Hers are cropped and composed views of exteriors of buildings or parts of an interior room that bring certain characteristics of a larger area to the attention of the viewer. In her work, Courtney explores the relationship between art and architecture using different lenses of focus, colour and light. Her work is widely appreciated and can be found in many private and corporate collections in the UK and the US.

Lucile Montague's works are beautifully drawn, but also very lively, pastel or oil images of people living and playing against a city backdrop. Her figures inhabit a vertiginous world and are often themselves apparently at full stretch. Lucile's work is represented in a number of collections including the Coventry Museum and Art Gallery.

John Vincent is an emerging young talent who paints urban settings and aspects of everyday life in a highly creative, imaginative and yet engaging realism style. His work captures a moment suddenly frozen in time and he has the ability to invite the viewer to imagine what has been going on and what is about to happen next. His work has recently been exhibited in various group shows in London.

Antonietta Campilongo, an Italian artist, has a passion for painting that leaps off the canvas and captivates the viewer with her powerful imagination. Her stylish images celebrate a spontaneous gesture or the city atmosphere of the small bourgeois, what we might term 'city posing'. She is very much an artist of the moment. Antoinetta's work has been showing in an exhibition touring Milan, Ferrara and Paris in early 2005.