Ilkley Art Trail opened this week to reveal an amazing collection of different art from more than 45 artists.

Sculptors, painters, photographers, jewellers, potters and other artists have opened up their homes and studios to the public to show the best of the region’s art.

Others are showing their work at different venues, ranging from a dentist’s to a shed, during the five-day trail which runs until Sunday.

Ilkley Art Trail organiser Lorna Bird said: “Our aim is to support great art being made in Ilkley and to involve the local community, arts organisations and business community in bringing cultural tourism to Ilkley on a greater scale.

“I am delighted that Ilkley has embraced the Art Trail so enthusiastically over the past three years.

“Awareness is tangible now and the buzz of anticipation is great reward for the team of volunteers who have kept so many plates spinning to reach out to the business communities and individuals alike to get them involved.”

Some of the artists, who were all assessed by a panel of experts, are exhibiting work for the second or third time. Other artists are new to the Trail.

Among them is Kathryn Oubridge, a conceptual artist who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, but is opening up her Ilkley home for the first time this year.

She said: “For the Art Trail I’ve created an installation for the home.

“The loose theme is home and habitat and I will be creating an alternative show home.”

Alongside this she has also turned her lounge into a temporary art gallery to show one of her recent exhibits which was featured at the Bluecoat gallery in Liverpool.

Titled Collateral Damage (Unfinished), the display features a double bed covered in a camouflage net with the names of children who have died in Iraq.

“The idea is to draw attention to the children who died in the conflict,” she said. “It’s up to anyone to take away from it what they want to take away from it.”

Another new artist this year is ceramicist Geoff Taylor, who is showing his hand-built ceramics at The Yard, at the rear of Brook Street.

Printmaker Anna Tosney is another newcomer this year. The Skipton-born artist is exhibiting a selection of her favourite prints inspired by the countryside at the Craiglands Hotel.

Anna uses her own style of printmaking, combining drypoint and monoprint techniques and loves to paint images of sheep, farmers and the glorious Dales countryside.

It is hoped the Trail will attract more than the 4,000 art-lovers who attended in 2012. Ilkley Grammar school A-level media students are filming the event this year.

Visit ilkleyarttrail.org.uk for more information.