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Scottish painter Alasdair Wallace's richly-layered work is suffused with the surrealism of the everyday, portraying worlds filled with odd juxtapositions. Painting urban fringes, his parklands and skylines initially seem familiar. And yet, through unexpected details, each setting becomes a dreamscape as much as a landscape.

His latest exhibition is resonant with echoes of Poussin and Claude, with towering sylvan glades and forest edgelands a prominent motif. And yet, interspersed with Wallace's familiar props - drum kits, gliders, axes, saws, rainbow pie-charts, shopping bags, …