NATURE and reflection are the main influences at Farfield Mill's latest exhibition offering visual exploration and discovery in landscape paintings.

It is some time since Farfield Mill Arts and Heritage Centre hosted a painting exhibition and this one features two talented paint artists and a printmaker.

Gwendol Gains, who worked for various publishing houses and studied fine art, says there are more unknowns than knowns in any chosen location that is ever changing, offering a lifetime of discovery: "I visit a place repeatedly, mark-making in oil pastel. Back in the studio, a meld of recorded image and memory informs the final oil painting."

Fellow paint artist Barbara Braithwaite is well travelled - she worked in the London art scene in the 1950s and spent some time in Italy after winning a scholarship to work in Rome. Her recent work features images captivated by light and reflections: "I try to abstract what has happened to me in something seen or felt, usually the mood is reflected by colour, light, shapes and special relationships," she said.

Jean Wright will also be exhibiting her printworks, which are a variety of abstract pieces on a wide range of subjects from life and objects around her. She enjoys the basic simplicity of the stencil process to create a unique style.

The exhibition will be running from Sunday, August 22, to Wednesday, September 29, at the Mill on Garsdale Road, Sedbergh.