The outdoors will be coming indoors in a major new exhibition by local artists at one of York's best-known independent hotels later this month.

Landscape, as the exhibition at Middleton's Hotel in Skeldergate is to be called, will bring together the work of five York-based artists, all of whom have exhibited at York Open Studios.

All the works that are to go on show are 'landscapes'. But they're all very different - showing just how broadly the form can be interpreted.

Suzanne Dekker makes physical works of art - including the leaf orb sculpture on these pages - from reclaimed glass.

Simon Palmour, meanwhile, is a photographer whose black and white images range from the abstract to urban scenes as well as landscapes.

Painters Adrienne French, Robin Grover-Jacques and Julie Lightburn, meanwhile, all interpret landscape in their own way. Adrienne's red moorland landscape on these pages is almost abstract in quality, while Robin's stunning depiction of Roseberry Topping captures the emotional intensity of the landscape and the way the weather works upon it in a manner Thomas Hardy would have approved. Julie Lightburn's detailed acrylics, meanwhile, glow with colour and precision, and reward a closer look.

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Forest Fields by Julie Lightburn

The work of all five artists will be on show from Saturday October 24 in the Organ Factory room at Middleton's Hotel, which hosted local artists during April's York Open Studios.

The hotel's owner Henny Clark, who is a textiles designer herself, says she is keen to develop Middleton's as a venue for local artists.

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Henny Clark

"The Organ Factory is a great space to show art and whilst this room is booked all year round with conferences and weddings, I was keen to block out some time to allow art exhibitions," she says. "Landscape... will be the first major exhibition to be held at Middletons. I hope it will be a great success for the artists.”

BLOB Landscape will run in the Organ Factory room at Middleton's Hotel in Skeldergate from Saturday October 24 to Sunday November 1. Entry is free. Visitors will be able to view and buy original artwork as well as limited edition prints.