BRANTWOOD is always a special place to visit.

A pure paradise of art and nature, the former Coniston home of John Ruskin is an awe inspiring environment for artists and craftmakers of all forms.

The latest diamond to shine bright in the Brantwood exhibition programme is Vivienne Pooley's Eyes to the Hills Once More, running until August 28.

The exhibition of recent oils and watercolours celebrates Vivienne's life-long passion and love of mountains and wild places, not just in her Lakeland home environment, but also from the Alps, Scotland, Norway and one trek in Nepal, up to Everest Base Camp.

All those breathtaking mountain vistas have provided a wonderful inspiration enabling Vivienne to follow up with paintings and subsequent exhibitions.

Vivienne says she's very fortunate to have grown up in the "lovely Lake District," where she developed a deep love of mountain landscape alongside her love of painting, which has continued all her life.

In 2005 and 2006 Vivienne had solo exhibitions of Alpine paintings at Rheged near Penrith, which was followed, in 2007, by a third Alpine exhibition at Brantwood. In 2011, the Kirkby Lonsdale painter yet again blazed a trail back to Brantwood to present her first Eyes to the Hills exhibition of Lakeland paintings.

Few portray dramatic peaks and untamed heights quite like Vivienne, an artist whose work is as highly thought of as the elevated scenes she paints.

Eyes to the Hills Once More is on show at Brantwood's Severn Studio daily 10.30am-5pm.

Vivienne will hold 'meet the artist' sessions at Brantwood on July 24 and 29 and August 21, from 1pm-4pm

For further information telephone 015394-41396 or visit www.brantwood.org.uk.