Certain arts of work need space to breath and just be in order to be appreciated. Such is the case with the six major shaped canvases now hanging at the Said Gallery of the Said Business School, where they are set against a white background and get the space they deserve.

They are the work of Trevor Bell, one of a select band of living artists who have had a full Tate retrospective and whose paintings can be seen in a number of college collections, including those of Balliol, St Anne's, St Catherine's and Trinity. These massive paintings, some measuring 244 x187cm, are very recent works and show the influence of many years spent in Florida where he taught at the State University.

There's a vibrant luminosity to these remarkable canvases which are essentially big, powerful splashes of colour which echo abstract expressionist Mark Rothko's bold approach to the way one hue can merge seamlessly into another.

Athough Trevor Bell is an artist who is constantly questioning his methods and their results, then going on to explore the next step forward, he has nevertheless continually called on the terrible and beautiful forces of nature for his inspiration.

Once this is known, it's easy to see how he could have been influenced by the elements as he dragged large sweeps of colour across his canvases to create Depths, Morning Sea, Night Earth, Red Earth and Sea Blade, all of which evoke mesmerising images of both nature and infinity.

Before Sea After Earth is on show at the Said Business School from tomorrow until July 8, and will coincide with a further exhibition of his paintings and works on paper from the late 1950s to the present, which are being shown at 26 Cork Street, London, from June 27 to July 21.