TWO well-known local artists have teamed up again for their second joint exhibition.

Four years since their first creative pairing in 2013 at Peter Blaskett’s Signature Gallery in Kendal, Tina Balmer and Tim Leeson are back together with The Still Mix running from Monday, October 9 at Natterjacks at Ulverston.

Tim's work is symbolic, sentimental as well as an exercise in composition and perspective but most importantly it is the play of light on surfaces and how it affects form that he feels brings his work alive.

"I decided for this exhibition I would paint objects in my familiar surroundings," explained Tim. "The main objects are vases, flowers, bottles, fruit painted in watercolours, some where a wet on wet techniques is used, others just painted directly on to heavier, unstretched paper."

From pastel drawings to abstracts, paintings in a loose Cubist style to still life, Tim - who set-up South Lakes Arts Collective when he moved from Kendal to Ulverston in 2016 - is one of the region's most versatile and expressive artists.

His Portal series of paintings on show in Black and Blue with Monica Metsers last year at Peter Blaskett’s Signature Gallery in Kendal, were some of his best and most engaging and experimental to date.

A prizewinner at the inaugural 2011 Open Up North exhibition at Kendal's Brewery Arts Centre, Tina's work has real aesthetic appeal with her clever compositional skills and use of vibrant colours.

One of her highest profile and successful exhibitions was Where We Started exhibition at Brantwood's Severn Studio in 2015, which saw the Ulverston-based painter back on the exhibition trail after a spell at Eastbourne.

An exceptionally talented artist, her work is an appreciation of everyday objects, from table top settings with teapots and teacups, to exuberant paintings of flowers.

A former student of the prestigious St Martin’s School of Art, Tina moved with her family to Ulverston in 2006 from Newhaven in Sussex.

Painting full time, she joined the highly thought of Green Door Studios group at Kendal and became involved in running its annual art trail. Soon after arriving in Cumbria she joined the Printfest Committee, taking up the director’s role the following year for Printfest 2008. Later she joined the artists’ cooperative which set up and built the Beach Hut Gallery in a disused railway station building at Grange-over-Sands.

Tina also set-up ArtFest North in 2013 with prominent and popular Lakeland artist Rosie Wates.

The Still Mix runs at the Queen Street venue until November 17.