THE Great North Art Show features more than 350 works in Ripon Cathedral ranging from printmaking and illustration to painting and sculpture by emerging and established artists.

Highlights include new paintings by Tom Wood whose pictures are in collections owned by the Prince of Wales and National Portrait Gallery in London, which commissioned his portraits of Prof Lord Robert Winston and Alan Bennett.

The Great North Art Show is unique in allowing artists to exhibit a collection of work rather than an individual piece. Selections this year cover a broad range of subjects and techniques, from wildlife studies to expressive prints depicting stylized landscapes and vibrant abstract paintings.

Among the 56 artists selected to show work are Andrew Dalton, whose black and white prints are inspired by the industrial and rural northern landscape, created in his studio on a Victorian etching press; William Watson West, a designer and painter whose observations of landscape, flora and fauna are the basis for fine and applied art; and Nolon Stacey, a wildlife artist inspired by living in the Yorkshire Dales.

This year’s selection was made by Richard Hawkes who runs the Watermark Gallery, Harrogate.

The exhibition runs until Sunday, September 24. Entry is free and all artworks are for sale.