TO close a year of successful exhibitions, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is choosing work by women artists from its permanent collection. Work dating from the early 19th to the 21st century will be on show and the subject matter is varied.

As well as figurative works, there are many examples that show how the rich diversity of the Pembrokeshire landscapes has always provided inspiration.

The earliest item in the exhibition is from 1832 - 'On the North Sands' - one of a series of drawings by Lady Marianne Mordaunt, one of the many women artists who visited the new Tenby being developed by Sir William Paxton.

Augusta Bowen's painting 'Tenby Harbour' is an example of work by this skilled artist from the 1890s.

She attended E. J. Head's School of Art and exhibited in London's Royal Academy. The exhibition continues with work by several well-known artists from the 20th century, such as Nina Hamnett, Ray Howard-Jones and Dorothy Morse Brown, and contemporary artists such as Claudia Williams and Pamela Scott Wilkie.

There are also those whose histories are unknown, but whose work immortalises them, such as 'The Girl in Blue' by Winnie Matthews.

The exhibition is now open Monday to Friday from 10 am until 5 pm, with last admissions at 4.30 pm.

The museum will close for its Christmas break on December 16.