NATURAL Signs and Dreamtime Visions, an exhibition by Dave Grimbleby, is on display at the Dukes Gallery, Lancaster, until May 3.

Southport-based Dave uses oils, acrylics, inks, collage and natural materials such as grass, seeds, leaves, petals and feathers which are all integrated onto the picture surface.

More recently his work has had an ecological and contemplative approach inspired by Australian Aboriginal dreamtime imagery.

The exhibition is free.

FLOOKburgh Drama Group is back on stage next week to defend its overall winner's title in the Furness and Cartmel Drama Festival running next Monday and Tuesday, April 29/30 (7.30pm).

Pat Mikosz directs the players on the Tuesday night in Death by Murderous Means.

The two-night festival also features the talented drama groups of Grange-Over-Sands, Pennington and Swarthmoor.

Staged at the Victoria Hall, Main Street, Grange-Over-Sands, tickets cost £3/ concessions £ 2.50.

They are available from Poole's Newsagents, group members or at the door.

ABSTRACTED Landscape, an exhib-ition of paintings by Paul Clark - winner of Kendal Windows on Art 2001 most noteworthy artwork award - has opened at Living Room Modern Art, Sun Street Studios, Lancaster.

The exhibition, drawing on the shifting sand and light of Morecambe Bay, the Kent Estuary and the surrounding hills and forests, runs until May 11.

LANCASTER'S Folly Gallery welcomes the photographic exhibition OUR FATHERS: Childhood Loss and Memory

by Mike Simmons and Barbara Hind.

This body

of photographic work was developed to encourage dis-cussion about personal loss, and articulates the artists' personal reflections on the deaths of both their fathers.

The exhibition runs until May 18.

DIRECTED by and starring Brian Cant of Playaway fame, Middle Ground Theatre Company's production of children's classic The Railway Children comes to Blackpool Grand Theatre from May 7 to 11.

Box office 01253-290190.

WINDERMERE Choral Society is staging its final concert of the season on Tuesday, May 7, at 7.30pm in Carver United Reformed Church.

The programme will be light-hearted with a selection of songs from the shows including Oliver, Cats and The Merry Widow.

Soloist will be Marilyn Tordoff.

Tickets £4.50 from choir members or on the door.