A NEW exhibition at The Station, in Richmond, combines tissue paper collage by Victoria Bellas Carter and jewellery by Suzanne Tweddle.

The show opens on March 22 with a meet-the-artists event from 10am-5pm and continues until Friday, April 4.

Since graduating with a first class honours degree in 2000, Bellas Carter has worked as a freelance artist.

She spent time in London as a studio designer before returning North. In recent years she has enjoyed successful exhibitions, including at The Station, and been invited by the Royal Horticultural Society to exhibit at Tatton Park Flower shows.

Her studio is at Eggleston Hall Gardens, near Barnard Castle, where the flowers are as a constant source of inspiration. She will also attend the exhibition on Sunday, March 23, from March 26-30 and on April 2 and 3.

At her Barnard Castle studio, designer Suzanne Tweddle makes glass beads, buttons, baubles and jewellery using a technique known as lampworking – making small objects from glass melted in the flame of a torch before adding surface decoration and finishing them in a kiln. She will be at The Station on March 23, 29 and 30.