'ARTISTS in the Family' will be the next fortnightly exhibition in the Small Gallery at Colby Woodland Gardens, Amroth.

The family line-up crosses three generations, comprising local artists Anne Gregson and daughter Jo, together with her late father and great aunt.

With Anne's background there was never any doubt that she would follow the family tradition. She studied painting at Liverpool College of Art, followed by a teaching career in Oxford and Leicester, where she regularly exhibited.

Anne likes to use landscape as a starting point for lively and colourful explorations into a private world of emotions and ideas. Her painting 'Bird's Eye View' is typical of this - a jungle of grasses towering above the tiny, barely visible creature central to the composition. Gnarled tree trunks and serpentine creepers form the basis of many other designs, painted in bright luminous greens, yet always containing an element of surprise.

Jo followed a separate career, but always painted in her spare time, and since moving to Pembrokeshire three years ago has worked enthusiastically with her mother to establish their own studio-gallery, whilst attending art classes to master the techniques of different media. The exhibition at Colby is a foretaste of their inaugural exhibition at 'Little Wedlock', Gumfreston, near Tenby, due to open shortly.

The gallery at Colby is set amid eight tranquil acres of woodland, providing a home to many species of plant and bird life - and inspiration to many visiting artists. Anne's work particularly complements these surroundings, though other members of her family offer, as they say, "something completely different."

'Artists in the Family' runs from April 21 to May 3, and a two for the price of one admission to the gardens is offered on presentation of this article.

The gardens and the gallery are open daily from 10 am to 5 pm. Further enquiries, please ring 01834 814200.