Paintings, craft in glass, semi-precious jewellery, turned wood, pottery, pewter, textiles, batiks, engravings, lino-cuts and recycled materials are offered in the Christmas Exhibition at the White Lion Street Gallery.

With about 60 artists contributing their work, there is a wide range of approaches in all mediums, sizes and prices: gentle watercolours, bold acrylics, huge landscapes, in styles from quirky to abstract to realistic or mythical and in a price range with something to suit all pockets.

With many of the artists living and working in Pembrokeshire, there is a feeling and flavour of the county running through the exhibition. Dorian Spencer Davies brings townscapes of Tenby with the work of Sageston artist Jon Houser showing the beaches nearby. In Bert Evan’s clever collages are the thoughts of women friends on the Caldey boat and local workman having a break sitting and chatting in Frog Street. Mark Morris depicts passers-by naturally in his Tenby townscapes and Andrew Douglas Forbes’s small portraits also catch the characters of people going about their day-to-day activities. Dai David’s panoramic backlit oil paintings of the harbour in Tenby are simply spectacular.

Further into the countryside Maggie Brown, from Letterston, paints the magical woodland of Tycanol, light filtering down onto the moss-enshrouded mounds below and Elizabeth Haines paints the rocky outcrops of her homeland in the Preselis. The unicorn of Lampeter Velfrey artist Colin Finn gazes up to Carn Ingli, while the farm cats of Tina Lewis, who lives in the same village, lounge on her old tractors.

The batiks by Rhona Tooze show the elevated houses of Abereiddy and the elongated street of Llangrannog, twisting down to the sea. Riverside scenes, appropriately in watercolour, by Peter Cronin provide a calm counterpoint to Fishguard artist Simon Read’s thunderous clouds and troubled seas in oils.

Alongside the paintings is a large collection of ceramics ranging from domestic to purely decorative by local potters, including Simon Rich, Mick Morgan, David Small and Vivienne Albiston, to name just a few, together with stained and fused glass by Neil Croucher and new unique intriguing sculptures of birds, frogs and snails - made with engraved cutlery by Barry Lewis. The talented Linda Carr, of Manorbier, also exhibits bird, fish and fruit in her richly detailed embroidered textiles, some in free standing frames for those whose ‘walls are full’, and there is a fine collection of turned wood by Gary Brine.

The work of many other artists and craftspeople is also on show in the rest of the gallery.

The exhibition is at the White Lion Street Gallery, near to the Premier Inn in Tenby. The gallery is open from 10 am to 5 pm every day except for Wednesdays and Sundays and will be open most days over the Christmas and New Year period. Everything can be viewed on the gallery website: www.artmatters.org.uk.

For further information, telephone 01834 843375.