SUNDAR Walker has been showing her vibrant paintings in Cumbrian art galleries for the past 14 years.

Highly regarded far and wide, the Grange-over-Sands painter is exhibiting her new creations within the sought after space of the Brewery Arts Centre’s Sugar Store Gallery.

Running from tomorrow (Friday, August 1) until September 8, Heaven and Earth is her first solo exhibition in three years, due to temporal arteritis that affected her vision.

The Kendal exhibition is Sundar celebrating her recovery and back painting again.

Sundar says she is really looking forward to the exhibtion.

“This series has been painted both in India and Cumbria,” explains Sundar.

“The Himalayas are the backdrop to where I grew up and there are a number of the Himalaya paintings on show alongside the majestic Cumbrian landscapes.”

Sundar’s unique style combines both the East and the West and alongside the brilliant hues, lyrical, magical and dreamy landscapes, are some figurative works depicting aspects of life in India and Britain.

Even mundane, everyday objects are made special through Sundar's visual perceptions. She paints largely in oils, but also acrylics, tempera, gouache and inks and her art has a sense of joy drenched in jewel like colours often with echoes of Middle Eastern deserts and landscapes in her paintings.

She also works on private commission and her portraits and landscapes are in public and private collections around the world.

Sundar is of Punjabi origin. Her artistic career started in the late 1980s around Manchester and in the past decade her work has matured and has been widely noted.

She says she is deeply indebted to her father’s enduring influence that shaped her life and career as an artist.