MORE than a dozen artists will be showcasing their work at a riverside gallery in Manningtree.

The North House Gallery is holding an exhibition in contribution to the River Stour Festival and to the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Stour Valley Path.

The 13 artists exhibiting their work include, Norman Ackroyd, Neil Bousfield, May Cornet, Jason Hicklin, Mel King, Kit Leese, Jane Lewis, Sarah Milne, Ruth Philo, Oliver Soskice, Dina Southwell, Jasper Startup, and Linda Theophilus.

The brief to the artists for the exhibition was ‘Path’, leading to some remarkably diverse interpretations.

Norman Ackroyd has sent etchings of bucolic gates in snow or dappled summer light, of the pilgrims’ path up Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, in Ireland.

Neil Bousfield walks and draws every day along the fragile coast of Norfolk between Happisburgh and Walcott and then in the studio produces original engravings of remarkable complexity and emotional resonance.

May Cornet’s A Path Through the Woods is a monoprint on three canvas panels two metres tall and altogether over four metres long.

Jason Hicklin has etched Fox Covert in North Yorkshire in three versions.

Kit Leese usually paints en plein air locally and has taken to the Stour Valley Path specifically for new paintings and etchings.

Jane Lewis always takes the landscape as the starting point for her abstract paintings in oil or watercolour.

Sarah Milne spends much of her time in Constable Country.

Her two paintings in oil and pastel on board, Stour Valley Walking and Looking Across the Stour Valley, show her familiarity with the valley and the painter who inspired its protected status.

Ruth Philo is contributing new distinctive abstract paintings.

Oliver Soskice’s abstract landscape paintings are always in some way airy and transparent.

Dina Southwell depicts flight paths in her new silkscreen prints, a path along the estuary at Wrabness in a huge painting, and the shingle of the beach beside that path in collage.

The exhibition is running between July 6 and August 24. Go to northhousegallery.co.uk.