ROBIN Oliver is attempting through his artwork to keep the act of Remembrance on everyone’s agenda.

The Carlisle-based artist's latest solo exhibition of mixed media work is on show at Abbot Hall Coffee House, Kendal, until January 3, and includes For England, a collage which began its creative life as one of Robin’s First World War research and preparatory sketch book pages. The page began in 2010 and has been gradually reworked, with new elements added, taken away, or painted over, eventually evolving into the final image, completed by Robin in August 2014. Overall the work was inspired by Cecil Spring Rice’s 1908 poem, which was post, Great War, set to music, and has become one of Robin's favourite hymns: I vow to thee, my country.

Incorporated into the collage is an ailing tree, one of Robin’s photographs that recalls the damaged trees of the French and Belgium countryside due to the war. However, other elements either painted on, or incorporated, bring the image up to the present day.

Brampton-born Robin says he takes inspiration from his native Cumberland. His images represent his slow and gentle evolution as an artist, recording what he's observed.

They are representations of both what he sees and imagines, experimental, constantly changing and evolving, also reflecting his memories of growing up at the family hill farm, nestling at the foot of Cold Fell - a landscape he feels he is ‘hefted to’ like the sheep, cattle, and wild deer which have long roamed there.

The Abbot Hall display also includes three different colour combinations of his now iconic Cold Fell Goose, Cumberland image.

Other works include his A Crest for the Cold Fell Shepherds, Cumberland.

Robin is also a published poet whose work It captures his feelings about the River Eden near the outskirts of his Carlisle home, where he looks towards Cold Fell.