Artists’ work on display in minster

An exhibition of work by Southwell-based artists is being held in the minster.

The work by ten artists, who make up the Southwell Artists group, includes paintings, drawings and photography, demonstrating a variety of work in a wide range of styles, techniques and subject matter.

Mrs Heather Cartwright, of Westgate, is exhibiting landscape work including a painting of elephant grass on Oxton Road.

Her husband, Mr Peter Cartwright’s painting, Approach, was generated from the memory of a visual experience that a scrap of drawing released.

Drawings by Mrs Jackie Berridge, of Halloughton Road, focus on anthropomorphic beings, often with human-like bodies and animal heads, set in an imaginary landscape.

Photographer Maggy Milner, of Westhorpe, is exhibiting pictures taken at a building site in Palma, Majorca, in 2009 that are abstract images of contrasting textures, colours and patterns while Mr Stuart Blackwood, of Westhorpe, uses complex layering caused by reflections in shop windows to capture a single montaged image in camera.

Alison Whitmore is exhibiting a journal-like body of work aimed at capturing the moment.

Paintings and drawings by Mrs Christine Measures, of Westhorpe, have been inspired by the minster.

Work on display by Mr David Willets, of Westhorpe, is a series paintings or drawings concerned with a single subject over a long period of time showing the gradual process of change, growth and decay, and work by Mrs Jill Langford, of Westgate, includes images of everyday objects.

The exhibition runs until Saturday, January 18.

All work will be available to buy priced under £200 with a donation to the Southwell Minster Arts Fund.

Southwell Artists are preparing for their biennial open studios on August 23 and 24.