RED Barn Gallery stages a new exhibition with a striking mix of work.

Among the fab five featured in Exhibition Four 2015, is ceramic artist Mark Smith from Staffordshire, who has a really unmistakeable style.

Each remarkable and skilfully constructed piece of Mark's work seems to tell its own seafaring story.

He is inspired by coastal life, architecture and the effects the natural environment has on materials, such as wood, metal and painted surface .

Ships, boats, and wrecks are the main fabric of the work, made from clay that has the textures of metal and wood objects salvaged, press moulded, and patched together to produce a variety of forms that look as though they have sailed the Seven Seas.

Also in the frame at the Melkinthorpe art house, near Penrith, is mixed media artist Pratima Kramer, whose work includes eggshell; light objects mainly ceramic with added found materials and embellishments. The fine clay is impressed with carved pattern and ornate textures, and is formed into the shape of elephants and tall characters with loose tilting heads, their faces painted with intriguing expressions in fine brush worked detail. Glass and wire are also used in Pratima's vibrant pieces, some for the wall, some free standing.

Originally trained as a scientist, the artefacts that grace her work have been collected while travelling across India.

Well-known Cumbrian painter Tim Pavey draws the viewer into his dream like landscapes, painted in gouache, using bright and vivid pigments.

Although there are no figures within Tim's paintings there's a sense of their passing (or hidden) with winding paths, or the suggestion of paths, as recurring themes among the rolling hills and trees.

Distinguished Norfolk-based printmaker Rob Barnes has produced his linocuts especially for Red Barn this autumn, with a stunning collection of limited editions, which portray his passion for landscape and seascape. The prints show all the seasons and moods within, animals silhouetted and distant horizons in the bold colour and line characteristic of this medium.

Exhibition Four also includes Brighton jeweller Becky Crow, who deftly depicts tiny tales on silver jewellery, showing various themes of childhood and nature but made with terrific precision and expertise using bronze and gold to enhance the pieces.

More a mixture of jewellery and three-dimensional illustration, Becky's fascinating work is designed to be both worn and displayed. With drawing as a starting point and the great outdoors as a source of wonder and constant inspiration, elements of narrative are captured in silver and transformed into miniature scenes telling out across the surface of a brooch or hanging as a pendant.

Another must-see Red Barn exhibition.

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