THE work of one of the region's most gifted sculptors goes on show at Grasmere’s Heaton Cooper Studio on May 18.

Ophelia Gordon Bell (1915-1975) is well known as the wife of landscape painter William Heaton Cooper. However, the new show, A Vital Spirit, focuses on her own life and extraordinary talent, with examples of her work as a student, as well as her industrial and religious commissions, and portrait heads.