JAN Huntley-Peace's art fair in miniature at the Athenaeum, Leasgill, brings together highly impressive works from some of the region's most celebrated painters, ceramicists and other fine artists.

Staged on Saturday and Sunday, July 21/22, Jan's vision for the show is of a small but perfectly formed capsule containing high quality, original work by some of her favourite local artists.

Capsule is a selling exhibition with plenty of quality works to buy and the opportunity to wander around the Athenaeum and meet the artists.

Jan, designer and creator of Capsule, was short-listed for the Cumbria Artist of the Year in 2017. She works mainly with porcelain, producing delicate and textured pieces echoing fabrics draped directly onto a figure.

Tina Balmer has won a passionate following with her distinctive use of paint, sometimes scraped back, sometimes applied with a palette knife, or in washes, splashes or drips. Flowers, vases, jugs, teapots on tables, visions of the everyday are both inspiration and celebration.

James Hake's intriguing glazes, to his original hand-mixed recipes, set his impressive ceramic stoneware apart. He is constantly blending, adapting and experimenting. At the moment James is incorporating local materials from quarries, clay seams and wood ash into his glazes.

Rosie Wates’ unique theatre boxes form part of a body of work that includes painting, collage and photo-based media. Moving between the abstract and figurative, she creates mysterious spaces where dramas are played out; memories lost in time, dreams of futures barely glimpsed.

Also featured is Miles-Moore Ceramics, the studio of husband and wife Martin and Siobhan, who won the Creative Business Category of the Cumbria Family Business Awards this year. They take inspiration from the natural materials that they forage to create glazes and integrate into their work.

In the frame too is printmaker Jamie Barnes, whose aquatint etchings are principally concerned with manmade structures: houses, buildings, townscapes and structures in the landscape; Jessica Elleray, who has recently taken over as director of the Arnside and Silverdale Art Trail, uses a variety of media, principally painting and sculpture; Christine Leadbetter’s intuitive and lyrical use of colour in her paintings creates a distinctive sense of place and Karen Wilkinson’s impressive hand-coiled, burnished and smoke-fired vessels draw their inspiration from natural objects and African culture.

Meanwhile, Angie Flynn captures everyday domestic situations using fabric, stitch, paint and papers. A journey of scribbling creating a narrative through her stitched images and sculptures which the viewer can identify with. And for those who love drawings and paintings of flowers through the seasons. Sally Bamber has captured them beautifully as they grow and fade in the landscape, nostalgic and delicate.

A terrific line-up and a must-see showcase.