Three Welsh born-and-bred artists will exhibit their landscapes together at the White Lion Street gallery in Tenby for the month of May.

Sian McGill, growing up ‘between the mountains and the sea’, always drew what she saw around her. Walking, especially along coastal paths, showed Sian an inspirational landscape that she wants her painting not only to represent as an actual place, but also the feeling of being there, out in the elements.

Her first paintings were in pastels, but for the last few years Sian has worked with oil paint - using a palette knife. With the knife she can express the structures underlying a scene, the facets and varying roughness of rock, the slide of a wave or a drift of vegetation.

Sian finds both passion and peace in the process of painting. However, her time is limited: when her children were small she could paint while they napped, now it’s when they are at school. Sometimes in the day she invites friends to paint with her, the informal group learning from each other. Sometimes she attends masterclasses to learn new techniques.

In this exhibition, Sian shows landscape in her sculptural, clean, light-filled style -in a shift away from pure representation. Recognisable and familiar areas of Pembrokeshire and remote and uninhabited Black Mountains and North Wales areas are included.

Owen Lyndon Thomas first exhibited his paintings in the early 1960s. Then he depicted the industries in the landscape of South Wales works, mines and pits. Then, in a complete change of direction, he became a potter, becoming renowned throughout Wales and the Marches for his stoneware.

Lyndon resumed his painting career in 2008, developing anew what is now a clearly recognisable style in acrylic. On paper he works the paint with knives to achieve paintings with both textured and scraped-back surfaces. He exhibits paintings of North Pembrokeshire and the Lleyn Peninsula, the areas which interest him most, especially where there is evidence of past and present human habitation.

‘Exploring a subject may require up to five paintings to capture a range of moods that various weather conditions provide.’ Thus Lyndon’s work may include overcast or storm-laden skies in greys and yellows.

Eden Evans grew up in Pembrokeshire and again resides here, but has lived other lives elsewhere. Like Sian he juggles time to paint, fitting it between shifts with the Ambulance service.

Eden’s first love is for drawing, with light being the main inspiration. He is more interested in tonal quality than in colour so viewers can expect impressionist landscape and marine studies in subtle earthy tones enlivened by sparks of silver, grey and white.

He has an easy style in watercolour and his oils are usually painted en plein air, Eden braving the elements of harbour, estuary and countryside. For him, painting isn’t the relaxing activity people sometimes imagine it to be. ‘Painting requires constant questioning... making decisions about what to include, what to leave out, what marks to make to get the effects I want.’ Not always finishing in one go, he takes the work back to his studio. ‘Then I’m working with what I’ve already painted and what I remember, still making those decisions.’

The exhibition offers the best of three distinctive artists, using different mediums and styles to depict Welsh landscape and especially that of Pembrokeshire in around 60 paintings. All are original and some will be unframed.

The exhibition runs from tomorrow (Saturday, April 30 to May 28, at the White Lion Street Gallery, open 10 am - 5 pm every day except for Wednesdays. Phone 01834-843375 for more information or see the website www.artmatters.org.uk