EXHIBITING ARTISTS Romey Chaffer Painter - oils, acrylic, and collage. I draw my inspiration from the landscape, usually an area of woodland near my home. My own internal landscape intrudes into the pictures, as well as my concern for the environment. In this body of work I responded to waste plastic in trees and rivers which I found simultaneously visually exciting and polluting. ‘Twists on Red’, oil on board Carolyn Earlam Painter - oils, acrylic and watercolour My work is informed by observation and is developed through memory and imagination. I am interested in the process of painting and the way in which ‘accidental’ happenings can change the course of the work. I aim to make a spontaneous response, which captures the essence of the subject. 'Reflection', oil on canvas John Foker Painter - oils and acrylic My interest in gasometers started many years ago. I have always been impressed by their sheer physical presence and the combination of shape and colour curves, ellipses and all that iron-oxide rust. I like looking at them best in strong sunlight as this emphasises all those qualities of depth and space, tone and colour contrasts. ‘St. Alban's Gasometers’ , by John Foker, oil on canvas ‘The Oval Gasometers, London’, by John Foker, oil on canvas Malcolm Ludvigsen Painter - oils I am an oil-painter with a particular interest in figure and en plein-air painting.  Whenever possible I like to paint in the open air, directly in front of the subject. This, I think, gives my work a vibrancy and vitality sadly lacking in much of studio painting.  My subject matter is the ordinary, the domestic and the common place.  I do not seek out the spectacular, the shocking or the disturbing. I'm drawn to the beautiful but do not seek it out.  If my paintings have any purpose, apart from my own pleasure in painting them, it is to show the extraordinary in the ordinary.  My paintings are popular and can be found in galleries through out the UK and the US.  When I'm not painting, I'm a professor of mathematics.  I have an international reputation for my work in relativity, black holes, and cosmology.  I'm author of quite well known book on general relativity. ‘Ginny Painting’ oil on canvas Barrie Ormsby Painter - oils, watercolour, acrylic and mixed media Most of this work is related directly or indirectly to a small area of West Durham where I have been working from the motif for the last 20 or so years. Some compositions are studio based responses to various events; such as a defeated opencast application and feelings about foot and mouth disease (The farmer on whose land I have worked lost all his stock). Otherwise they are simply my responses to the complex experience of being in this landscape. “The Heaps” are two old pit heaps now almost reclaimed by nature, on the edge of Tow Law Fell. 'Heaps’, oil on board 'Grey Evening', oil on board Brian Relton Painter - acrylic and pastel I am seeking to escape ‘mimetic illustration’ and create a free and expressive art that explores the possibility of what paint and mark making can do to convey form and atmosphere whilst still retaining the essential draughtsman’s skill. ‘Nude Study’, acrylic and pastel on paper Damon A. Rostron Printer At the core of my artistic practice lies a love of colour and natural forms. My recent work uses a combination of hand drawn and cut separations with photographic elements. I create intriguing images that imply a curious kind of narrative. These screen prints are like illustrations for an as yet unwritten book. Every picture tells a different story to viewer. I am interested in the way people can perceive the same thing in a variety of ways. 'A Choice of Destiny', screen print David Wright Sculptor I tend to use local natural materials to communicate my response to the local coastal landscape. I strive to find metaphors that will evoke that environment, whilst also exploring metaphysical themes, such as: time/ eternity, energy/ entropy, stillness/ activity. ‘Stony Seasons’, group of stone pieces, sandstone, schist and slate 'Moontide I’, elm TOP