FIBRES with a Twist is a new exhibition of silk painting, crochet, felting and weaving by the Cleveland Fibre Arts textile group at the Inspired by… gallery in the Moors National Park Centre at Danby.

It runs alongside One Moor Year featuring paintings by Robin Puplett that capture the drama of the seasons and landscapes of the North York Moors over a calendar year. Both exhibitions run until August 24.

Cleveland Fibre Arts was established in the early 1990s. The group of about 30 members are all women who live in the North York Moors and East Cleveland area. They meet monthly to share knowledge and skills and to keep alive a number of traditional rural crafts.

They specialise in working with textiles in a variety of mediums, especially wool, from processing fleeces and hand-dyeing to spinning, weaving, knitting and felting. All their work is inspired by the natural elements, moods and colours of the moors, coast and Cleveland Hills.

Robin Puplett lives in Thirsk and is classically trained in fine art and graphic design. His preferred medium is acrylic on canvas, though he also enjoys working with oils or pencil.

He is often out on the hills or in villages sketching and photographing, seeking little details or the big skies of the National Park landscape.

His exhibition at the Spectrum Gallery in Thirsk in May last year was sell-out and he was on the shortlist for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year award.

His latest work reflects the dramatic visual changes in the North York Moors from month to month, season to season, based on visits over a full calendar year.

He said: “My artwork is driven by places and people. Each and every painting is taken from a place I’ve experienced and been inspired by, a place I’ve travelled to or lived at, a place I’ve cycled by or walked through.

"These paintings are my everyday life and my significant moments in the world outside. All of my paintings start life as sketches on paper but I always keep them quick, loose and free from too much detail otherwise I seem to leave the energy in the sketch when I need to save it for the final painting.”

For more about his work, see robinpuplett.co.uk.

The gallery is open daily from 9.30am-5.30pm, with free entry. Information on exhibitions can be found at northyorkmoors.org.uk/inspiredby.