OVER the years the Lake Artists Society has exhibited the work of many famous names from the art world.

Frank Bramley, Kurt Schwitters, Sir Frank Brangwyn, Sir William Russell Flint and Dame Laura Knight, just to mention a few illustrious artists, have all graced the society's annual exhibitions, held at Grasmere Hall since 1907.

Today's members are well aware that they stand on the shoulders of long standing, gifted fine artists and sculptors, not only continuing the tradition of excellence set up by their forebears, but with their eyes on the future, carrying it forward, making their mark in the current art world.

This year LAS celebrates its 114th summer exhibition, running until September 5.

Landscapes still more or less dominate, the more traditional interpretations by Christine Baines, Marion Bradley, Rachel Gibson, Tracey Levine, Martin Thomlinson, and Vivienne Pooley whose fell and mountain scenes recall the paintings by her father, Geoffrey Pooley, a highly revered former member of the society.

Kate Bentley’s powerful mountainscapes, Sally Tom’s original ceramic country scenes, Hideyuki’s oriental view of the Lake District, Martin Greenland’s melancholy vistas, and George Cannon’s colourful abstract scenes, add a new experimental air to the exhibition.

It truly is a show of art to savour.

These days society president is Stephen Darbishire, who he says has augmented his selection of woodland scenes in the style of his grandfather, Professor John Hay, also a former society member.

Stephen adds that the exhibition is "looking good" and the biggest LAS has staged with 344 paintings on show, including many non-members. From Ceri Alan’s evocative townscapes, Alan Stones atmospheric oil paintings and prints and Dawn Gabriel Chandler’s super realistic still lives to gifted 15-year-old, LAS 2018 Young Artist Award winner Lucy Prescot's The Circle of Thought, it really is an exhibition not to be missed.