Artist members of Oriel Q Gallery, Narberth shake off the post-Christmas blues by turning a discerning eye on their abiding inspiration - the Pembrokeshire landscape.

Now stripped of its leafy greenness, the barren winter structure of the rocks and trees around us stops artists in their tracks as they abandon the prettiness of summer and probe the history, geology and form of the coast and country around. It is time to look beyond the picturesque now and investigate how weather, history and man himself has changed our land.

Skeletal trees in Caroline Juler’s ‘Hawthorn Tree, Brynberian Moor’ bend reluctantly to the force of the wind. Pippa Sibert finds an abstract approach in her hand-stitched fabric image as she rages against the frost-eroded highway with her image ‘Pot-hole’ – the cyclist’s nightmare.

This is the artist community’s varied response to the sometimes over familiar conventional horizontal landscape. Come and share their vision and inventiveness in this exciting show.

Featured artist this month, in the Gallery window, is Judy Maynard with some of her bird and flower paintings. This small gathering of mixed media paintings, called ‘More than Meets the Eye’ reflects her delight in exploring the details of the natural world in its complexity.

Both exhibitions run from Friday, February 10 to Saturday, March 11 at Oriel Q Gallery, Narberth, Market Square, Narberth (telephone 01834 218 894). The Gallery is open from 10am to 4pm, Wednesdays to Saturdays.