Spring may still seem tantalisingly out of our grasp due to the brisk outdoor conditions, but in a picturesque corner of Wales it has well and truly sprung.
The Spring Show at the Lion Street Gallery in Hay-on-Wye showcases the best work on offer from contemporary artists working in Wales and the borders.
Detail from Stephen John Owen's After the rain, oil and plaster on canvas
Gallery director Brent Blair told me: "This year it features more than 20 up and coming artists with a whole range of both painting and sculpture on display in a wide variety of mediums.
"There's everything from pure abstract through to representational landscape."
Artists exhibiting include Ceri Auckland Davies, who paints luminescent landscapes and seascapes using egg tempera; Stephen John Owen, who paints vibrant oils on canvas; and Dylan Lloyd, whose acrylics on canvas remind us that summer was once here and could be again. Maybe.
Detail from Dylan Lloyd's Garden 81, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist
Passers-by will be drawn into the gallery by two sculptures of wolves in the window by Kevin Herlihy.
These are made entirely of recycled materials, including one in electrical wire and another in recycled aluminium and steel wire, which are lit up at night.
Echo by Kevin Herlihy, a life-size wolf made from recycled electrical cable and wire
The exhibition also includes a sculpture called Acclivity by Ed Elliot, which is made from London plane wood and shows a head and torso stretching to extend a ladder into the air.
Several intuitive landscape pieces by the painter Beth Fletcher are included as well as works by Matt Clarke, who takes inspiration from geological, biological, anatomical and geographical imagery, juxtaposing the microscopic and macroscopic.
The show runs until 20 May, ending just before the start of the Hay Literary Festival when the gallery will be putting on another large exhibition of mixed contributions.
Boomerang Buttress by Matt Clarke: oil, damar resin and acrylic on canvas, 90x120cm
Other artists exhibiting during the spring show are: Keith Bowen, Mike Jones, Sally Stafford, Susan Gathercole, Aneurin Jones, Sara Philpott, Helga Prosser, Rachel Ricketts, Chris Williams, Simon Dorrell, Kate Milsom, Wynne Jenkins, Nick Holly, Aled Prichard Jones, Clive Burnell and Ann Lewis.
The gallery is open six days a week from 10.30am鈥�5pm, but is closed Sundays.
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