A CUMBRIAN artist has been invited to take part in a national exhibition.

Kendal-based artist Marion Kuit has won a place at a prestigious national exhibition - The Society of Women Artists 162nd Annual Open Exhibition.

The Society of Women Artists, founded in 1855, 'seeks works of the highest standard … to promote women artists and showcase a diversity of work', and has, since 1857, held its annual exhibitions in London except for the years: 1941 to 1946, due to the Second World War, and in 2020, where due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year the exhibition will be open to the public at the Mall Galleries in London from Tuesday June 6 to Saturday June 10, 10am to 5pm.

Announcing their final selection, the SWA said: “It was incredibly hard to select with so many exceptional works submitted.”

The print selected by the Royal Society of British Artists (RSBA) for their 2023 exhibition is Knot, a linocut printed on Somerset paper on a C19th Columbian Press.

Knot is from the Net Curtains series, a collection of prints made after a visit to Donegal, Ireland – a response to the many abandoned houses left open to the elements and often ransacked. The torn or burnt net curtains symbolise the melancholic atmosphere of these abandoned homes and the events that must have preceded these evacuations.

The Society of Women Artists’ exhibition will be open to the public at the Mall Galleries, London, from Tuesday 6 June to Saturday 10 June 2023.

The full Net Curtains series can be seen at the Saltaire Arts Trail from Saturday 27 to Monday 29 May 2023.

And more work will be at Printfest, Ulverston on Saturday April 29 and Sunday April 30.

Marion is a member of The Lakes Artists and Cumbrian Printmakers and has exhibited regularly at the Lakes Artists Society Exhibitions and Ulverston’s Printfest.