An inspiring exhibition

Helen Booth and Mark Folds are neighbours who have both emigrated from England to rural west Wales. While Mark's new work is a direct response to the landscape he finds himself in - a total change from inner city London where he lived before - Helen's paintings hold echoes of the landscapes she remembers from childhood.

Her beautifully layered, contemplative abstracts are inspired by the idea of time and change, visualising memories as gossamer threads drifting in our subconscious.

By contrast, Mark's bold, black and white landscapes made using brushes and Chinese inks, are a dynamic, visual exploration of his new everyday surroundings, as well as an intensely personal, new direction for his work which has previously been the creation of large-scale, public sculpture.

Carmarthenshire ceramicist Duncan Ayscough, who teaches at the University of Wales in Cardiff, completes the trio. His sensual, rounded and long-necked pots are thrown and fired on the potters wheel, richly coloured and toned using surface carbonisation techniques.

The pieces are finished with additions of gold leaf and wax polished.

The exhibition runs from Saturday for a month.

For more information visit the gallery website at www.galanthusgallery.com, or call 01981 570506.

You will find Galanthus in Wormbridge.