GREEN Door artists are firmly back in the frame with a new exhibition and terrific open studios event.

Running until June, Green Door’s Market Place Studio artists stage From the Market Place at Kendal Museum which showcases the exciting and varied work created by many of the revered GD collective.

Paintings, prints, photography and sculpture are all represented in the show, which includes well-known artists such as Jamie Barnes, Averyl Bradbrook, Sue David, Cheryl Hitchcock, Colin Reynolds, Brie Wharf, Clare Whistler and Frances Winder.

Meanwhile, this weekend (April 5/6) the popular Green Door Art Trail returns - after a break in 2013 - with more than 50 artists, along with local galleries, opening their studios and homes for Green Door’s ninth trail.

Painters, sculptors, printmakers, ceramic artists, textile artists, jewellers and glassmakers from the South Lakeland-based group will showcase their art within their own creative space.

This year, there’s a greater choice of artists to visit in locations across Cumbria and north Lancashire.

In the run up to the trail, art lovers can whet their appetites by visiting GD’s taster exhibition at Yew Tree Barn at Low Newton, near Cartmel, which is hosting an exhibition of work by 21 Green Door members, including Kate Bentley, Marianne Birkby, Angie Mitchell and Janette Phillips. The exhibition will run until April 22.

And that’s not all - work from trail artists is also exhibited at the Brewhouse at Burgundy’s in Kendal until the end of April.

There is also a chance to win a £100 voucher to spend on any Green Door Art Trail artist.

Entry forms are available at any of the studios or venues.

For further information visit www.greendoor.org.uk.

Kendal Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10.30am-5pm.

Telephone 01539-815597.