ARTISTS from Ilkley and Addingham will have their art on show in the picturesque surroundings of Ripon Cathedral for a month, beginning this Saturday August 29).

Ilkley's Joy Godfrey and Mike Smith, of Addingham, are among artists exhibiting in The Great North Art Show, from August 29 to Sunday September 20.

Each exhibitor has a complete display screen to themselves in the Cathedral and one of the stipulations is that exhibitors should provide a themed display.

Joy will be exhibiting six screen prints showing some of Ilkley's well known landmarks and Mike's lino prints range over birds, flight and water in all its moods.

Joy said: "I have been a screenprinter ever since I left college in 1975. I have always found inspiration in Wharfedale’s scenery so I am thrilled to have work accepted for exhibition at the Great North Art Show in Ripon - all six works are inspired by the town and moorland surroundings of Ilkley, where I live."

Mike is a printmaker, who works through the medium of reduction lino printing, a process that employs up to fifteen different colour printing stages but only one printing block.

He said: "The continuing theme of my work is my attempt to capture the unique essence of a ‘moment’; a bird alights but has yet to settle; the calm of a scene is disturbed by panicked flight. That moment can have the seeming inconsequence of a drop of water about to fall from the beak of a swan or the dramatic ‘split second’ of seeing gannets majestically soaring above a breaking wave."