The splendid prints and drawings of local artist Raymond Victor Mee are on show at Brighton Museum Art Gallery.

It is an appropriate setting because Mee has consistently focused on the surrounding Regency architecture in his work.

For the last six years, Mee has divided his time between England and Italy, spending summers in St Leonards, Sussex, and winters near Florence.

Italy has provided him with constant inspiration: "With every corner you come to, there's a landscape.

"It's an artist's gift. You don't have to look for inspiration, it's all ready there - and you have all the treasures from the 15th Century."

Sussex, too, particularly Brighton, has proved to be equally compelling for Mee.

The exhibition explores his differing use of colour for the two countries and a keen eye for architectural detail and structure.

Lino prints of boats on Sussex's pebbled beaches and the plump domes of Brighton's Pavilion are contrasted with the grandiose Duomo in Florence.

Some of Mee's paintings have a dreamlike quality to them. He mixes traditional representations of architecture with playful compositions and colour, making buildings lean in different directions from one another.

A constant thread throughout his work is his talent for using colours that relate to particular places.

Brighton is bathed in sea blues and Indian hues that refer to the Pavilion. We are reminded of Italy's heat and terrain in the warm palette Mee chooses to capture his second home.

His monochrome pen and ink drawings painstakingly record detail. The underneath of Brighton Pier and the structure of the bandstand on the beach are rendered with the kind of detail one would expect of an engineer.

Above all, Mee's love of his two chosen homes is conveyed with every picture.

Mee studied at Leek School of Art before specialising in painting, printmaking and ceramics at Stafford College of Art and Design and Brighton University.

He then became head of art at Hove Grammar School, leaving in 1976 to pursue a career as a lecturer and artist. Last year, he had a successful one-man show in Bagni di Lucca, near Florence.

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Having lost touch with pupils and staff at the Hove Grammar School, Mee would like to get back in contact with those who remain in the Sussex area.