THE Kunsthuis gallery at Dutch House, Crayke, marks its first anniversary with A Yorkshire Bike Ride Through The Netherlands, a celebration of cycling and sights seen during country and city bike rides, to coincide with the Tour de Yorkshire.

Kunsthuis draws together work by British and Dutch artists Tony Noble, Flos Pol and Lucie Berben in an exhibition of joyful, intuitive paintings and nature-inspired ceramics that depict Holland’s natural and urban beauty.

Saturday’s launch will include a performance by York artist and saxophonist Jude Brown and her band Double Edged at 3pm. Admission is free, no invitation is necessary and all are welcome.

Tony Noble’s work focuses on detailed, luminous and handsome depictions of Amsterdam bicycles, forming a series that explores intriguing relations between brightly coloured and pallid urban forms. “Walking around the space, we can envisage what a bike ride in the Netherlands might be like,” says Kunsthuis press officer Katherine A. Caddy.

Noble, of West Yorkshire, was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize last year and featured in Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist Of The Year 2014.

“I consider myself a quintessentially English artist and have great respect for the work of Lucien Freud, Stanley Spencer, Carel Weight, Euan Uglow, L.S. Lowry and Jock McFadyen,” he says.

Flos Pol’s energetic work conveys aspects of nature, in particular flora and fauna. She works from her garden studio in the Betuwe.

Pol enjoys articulating the fragility of beauty and sees her studio as her “safe nest”, where her painting is inspired by Constable, Gerhard Richter, Howard Hodgin, Anselm Kiefer and Mark Mulders.

“It is an inner quest, directed by immense passion to create new images,” she says. “It is the paint, the canvas, the speed and the use of techniques by which coincidences play an important role in the work.”

Maasbracht ceramicist Lucie Berben has had her own studio for 14 years, where she also teaches. Her stoneware is inspired by emotions, feelings and tactility. She takes what she sees in the world and expresses it through simplified, smooth forms that capture her interest in rhythm, order and repetition.

Berben applies these principles to natural objects.

“Balance and tension gives my work a destination,” she says. “I like to seek out contradictions and express them through colour and structure. Nature, flowers and seeds keep amazing me. The essence, simplicity and repetition of natural forms offer the balance I am looking for in my work.”

Meanwhile, in addition to her singing engagement, Jude Brown will be exhibiting impressionistic paintings of musicians and the act of playing.

“My work is representational as I’m trying to achieve a flow and musical feel,” says Jude, who studied art at Newcastle and took up playing the saxophone at a mature age. It has since become “an obsession”, one where she has taught and played sax in York for several years.

Latterly, Brown has returned to her first love of painting. “It seemed natural to start this adventure with a series of paintings of musicians,” she says. “They’re mainly inspired by my experiences at festivals in the South of France where the exuberance of those involved is apparent through the vivid colours and dancing lines.”

A Yorkshire Bike Ride Through The Netherlands runs from Saturday to May 31 at Dutch House, Mill Green Farm, Crayke, where opening hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.

A visit to the exhibition and the Dutch House wildlife garden also offers the opportunity to explore Crayke in the springtime.