ANNE Vibeke Mou's new artwork goes on show at Shandy Hall in Coxwold this week, inspired by the museum and the author Laurence Sterne, who lived there in the 1700s.

The Danish artist, now based in Newcastle, has created a temporary window for the panelled dining room for display until October 1.

Patrick Wildgust, Shandy Hall's curator, said: “Shandy Hall is the place where Laurence Sterne lived and worked as a writer. He told the story of Tristram Shandy using startlingly modern visual devices, not just text, and Anne Vibeke has responded to this in her artwork.”

Sterne, when the vicar of Coxwold, near York, wrote both The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy, although he died before this story could be completed.

One of the recurring themes in Sterne’s books is the passing of time and this is one of the influences on Mou’s artwork, created especially for Shandy Hall.

“In a way, I am using sunlight to draw on to the window of the dining room,” explained Anne Vibeke. “I’m using an ancient Japanese form of marbling to capture unique, one-off ink patterns. I’m transcribing those patterns to individual panes of glass, which are etched by hand with a diamond, creating tiny fractures in the glass so that the sunlight is trapped and the window holds patterns which change as the sun moves. Every piece is unique and captures a very brief moment, fixed in the glass.”

The artwork, entitled A Window For Shandy Hall, also reflects Sterne's use of marbled pages in his books, which turned each book into an artwork in its own right.

“Anne has captured the mood of Laurence Sterne’s work, placing her etching in a window where sun will track across it and mark the passing of time,” said Patrick.

Mou has worked with York stained glass conservator Barley Studio, whose role has been to help to install the piece in Shandy Hall. The commission is part of the Meeting Point project, managed by Hexham's Arts&Heritage, which has paired artists with nine museums in Yorkshire and the North East to create new pieces of work inspired by the museums and their collections.

Funded by Arts Council England’s Museum Resilience Fund, Meeting Point presents artworks in unexpected places and supports small and medium scale museums to commission artists to create a piece of work in response to the venue. More details can be found at www.artsandheritage.org.uk

Anne Vibeke Mou was born in Denmark in 1978 and received a BA (Hons) in Ceramics at Glasgow School of Art in 2002 and an MA of Arts in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art, London in 2005. Her present work includes drawings on paper and engravings on glass, often using repetitive methods, intuition and chance to create variations unfolding over lengthy periods of time.