FROM the Earth opens at Kendal Museum on Saturday (March 19), featuring the work of ceramicist Roger Bell, Gordon Baddeley, who works with old wood, and mixed media artist Jake Baddeley.

Running until April 24, the collaborative exhibition aims to inform and entertain, showing the links between the disciplines in which the three artists work - they all use materials derived from the earth, and seek to find a middle ground between abstraction and figurative representation.

Roger Bell is a ceramicist with considerable experience in the arts. His own work in clay has developed over time in terms of subject and technique. He is well known in the pottery world for his ceramic work and for his regular reviews of books relating to this broad and varied discipline. He has also been the proprietor of two art galleries.

Gordon Baddeley works with old wood, mainly root systems which have been in the ground for a considerable time. Working with the grain, he produces sculptures which are mainly abstract, but often take on an organic quality. He is concerned to produce shapes which are elegant and finely finished, but which take their character from the nature and grain system of the wood itself.

Inspired by the Dutch masters, Jake Baddeley started working with oil paint in 1992. He had his first of many solo successful exhibitions at Jaconde’s Kabinet in The Hague, which established him as a full time painter. He draws his inspiration from many sources, essentially Ancient Greece, iconography, mythology, psychology and philosophy. More recently he has developed his symbolic art work to include collage work using mixed media, and it is this aspect of his work on which he would like to focus at this time.

For further information telephone Kendal Museum on 01539-815597.