Artistree’s ’Spring into Summer’ Exhibition opens on Wednesday, May 17th and runs until the end of June. The Ledbury-based artist and designer co-operative’s second exhibition of the 2017 season will be held at their atmospheric Gallery, upstairs within the timber-framed sixteenth century Ledbury Heritage Centre along Church Lane.

The new works on display showcase the wide-ranging creative talents of this diverse group based throughout the Three Counties:

Cheltenham-based sculptor Alice Shield offers emotional and spiritual insights into the female psyche through her languid figurative works.

Cantillon Howell’s exquisite glassworks are outstanding in form and design, he truly engages with his heart and soul in his thought-provoking works.

Textile artist Marion Steele, from Worcester, looks to sea and the coast for inspiration, using the rugged structure of cliff and cove in different moods to weave and stitch evocative warm-textured interpretations.

The sea, with all its power and majesty, has also inspired artist Paddy Hannigan in his two large-scale paintings interpreting the elemental forces in a semi-abstract form accompanied by other works exploring different landscapes in varying mood, colour and mark making.

From sea to land, artist Bill Denny uses a Cubist-style approach in his artistic journey encompassing the intense relationships between form and structure offering colour and shape that sometimes throws the viewer off-centre but never fail to inspire and uplift.

Photographer, Brian Griffiths, offers evocative images of locations across the borderlands of England and Wales, bringing to life every season, every weather circumstance, every landscape creatively and imaginatively. His latest imagery takes in the starkly beautiful winter glories of the Brecon Beacons.

Based in Newent, Encaustic Artist, Jane Foot, gets her inspiration from the written word. Here her new work stems from personal letters, as in her collaged work ’1987’, and from poems by Edward Thomas (one of the Dymock Poets, who died 100 years ago this year) in ’Invisible Threads.’

Anna Cumming’s image is being used as the signature image for the ’Spring into Summer’ Exhibition - a stunning, vibrant interpretation of the Malvern Hills.

Also exhibiting are Jen Janes, with her gentle and harmonious interpretations of nature and landscapes; Brian Richardson with his abstracted interpretations of physical and emotional life events, and Alan Richardson ,with his collections and concoctions of metal and wood figures and artefacts: truly unique sculpture.

The exhibition runs from Wednesday, May 15th through to Sunday June 25th, Wednesday to Sunday (and occasional Tuesdays) 10.30am to 4.30pm. The Gallery is manned by the Artists themselves, with a warm welcome and the opportunity to talk about the artworks on display. www.artistree.org.uk, follow them on facebook.com/galleryofartistree and twitter @homeofartistree