SIX talented artists are featured in a major exhibition at the North Light Gallery, Armitage Bridge, which has been sponsored by Calder Graphics.

They work in a variety of styles and media, all with a considerable degree of success.

Damian Clark, who works in oils, lives in Batley and has travelled throughout the Mediterranean, gaining inspiration for his subjects and techniques. His Lunar Sunset features a crescent moon in a deep blue sky above the lights of a city, while Fire Sky shows a dome protruding into a wonderful fiery sky.

Maggie Melechi paints flowers imaginatively in a kaleidoscopic range of colours, in works like Floriana and Cascade, in acrylics. She is a graduate of Leeds University and there is a strong Mediterranean flavour to her work, influenced by her Italian family.

Her Torra Santa is a townscape, showing same excellent use of colour and form.

Brian Halton, who works in pastel, is a former art teacher whose home and studio are near Emley. His landscape works are large and impressive. There is some fine use of colour in Gawthorne Lane, Lascelles Hall, which verges on abstraction, while wild flowers and white-walled houses figure prominently in his sunny pictures of Pollenca, Spain.

A brightly coloured tractor is used for contrast in the softly-coloured landscape in Towards Castle Hill from Flockton Moor.

Caro Ward, a proficient horsewomen, is making a name for herself with her vibrant equine paintings in oils. Her three Renaissance Horse works are long, vertical paintings, strongly impressionistic and powerful.

Equus 1 and Moonshine are lively, free-flowing works with a great sense of life.

Some powerful portraiture comes form Jill Moynan, who studies graphic design at Huddersfield University, and she uses novel techniques.

Her self-portrait, It’s Rude To, for instance uses acrylic paint over a collage of contemporary magazines. Figure with Red Hair (acrylic) is in completely different idiom, very close to abstraction. Transpositions, completely abstract, uses multiple layers of coloured tissue paper, instead of paint, sealed with PVA.

Sue Heron’s sparse but graceful landscapes are influenced by her time on the Norfolk coast, as well as travels in Europe and North Africa. She has a strong feel for seascapes.

The exhibition also features graphic design images, manipulated in computer, with elegant transformations of cacti, foxglove and palm leaves.

The exhibition, running for six to eight weeks, opens 10am to 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays.