ARTIST Susan Marie Williams has returned to her native North Yorkshire and will show work in several galleries.

This includes pictures from her Heartland Watercolours series, which uses bold colours enhanced with masking fluid, and Fantastic Flowers created using acrylic inks on canvas.

She said: “My sense of belonging to this local geography and knowing the detail of it has inspired and influenced me and my work because it’s soaked right into my bones.”

After more than two decades in London, Essex and Suffolk, she has moved back to the village near Richmond where she grew up.

After years of working in an office, being self-employed as a proof reader, copy editor and indexer and more recently tending full-time to her animals, she has taken the leap to working as an artist full-time.

“So far, most people looking at my paintings seem to get the same pleasure as I do from the colour and life and happiness they see there.”

Her paintings are displayed at the Wensleydale Galleries in Leyburn and Showcase Gallery in Richmond and she will show two pictures in A Spot on the Wall at the Station Gallery, Richmond, from July 18 to September 2.

Fantastic Flowers: Acrylic Inks on Canvas is at The Old School House Arts Centre, Leyburn, from July 23 to August 13, and The Art of Wishful Thinking or Wouldn’t it be Great if the World Looked Like This! is at the Town Hall Gallery, Darlington, from August 3 to September 11.

For information, visit susanmariewilliams.com.