SUBMITTED PHOTO ' Trevor Bates was a pilot with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. < time to sculpture and painting. He continued to develop the themes that have been constant inspirations throughout his artistic life: birds, plant forms, figures and columns. "It's the unexpected and apparently illogical form in nature which concerns me, and it is by an indication of my new wonder at such things that I can most easily suggest the nature of the object which makes up my sculptural world," explains Bates. A founding member of Gallery 121, Bates has long been a follower of Swiss expressionist painter Paul Klee, who was famous for saying "a line is a dot that went for a walk." The value of an artist, says Bates, "is in his ability to create what he se£s, and not what people want to see." Information on Bates and the exhibit is also available on the gallery's website, at www.quinteartscouncil.org/galleryl 21 , Fob f3