A NEW gallery has been opened in Ripon by artists Sue Dewhurst and Clare Lindley.

Art Tarts Gallery in the small shops arcade just off Kirkgate is a small space where they will sell their own work alongside cards and other pieces. They will also use it as an open studio where visitors can watch them at work.

Ms Dewhurst is an acrylic artist and gallery owner, whose art has taken her around the world from from Preston to Peru.

Now settled near Richmond, she creates paintings influenced by the Dales which reveal the impact of mankind on the landscape with her barns, walls and rusting farm machinery, interspersed with the strutting attitudes of chickens.

Ms Lindley is a paper-cutter who has work in the Museum of Papercutting in the US and has shown nationally. She produces pictures using only paper and a scalpel, aimed mainly at style and graphic impact. She is influenced by the natural world and often wildlife, especially birds. She exhibited in Ghosts of Gone Birds recently in London documenting the demise of bird species.

The gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-4pm, and on Sundays throughout December.