Art painted during lockdown by West Yorkshire artists is on show at a local gallery.

The Bingley Gallery’s latest exhibition - What we did during lockdown - is a showcase for work completed during the past year.

Many of the artists - Jane Fielder, Amy Charlesworth and Clarke Avery are regular exhibitors at the Park Road gallery. This time they are joined by a new artist William Morrison.

“He is a painter who has a Turner-like ability to find drama in the landscape that surrounds us, and to present it in luscious palette of colours,” said gallery owner David Starley, who is also exhibiting his oils.

“Many artists have found Covid concerns have stilted their creativity, however Amy Charlesworth has revelled in the solitude,” he said. “We have five new works. She has also been experimenting with frame making, to the extent of carving a Kanji inscription into one for an orientally-inspired painting.”

Bingley’s Jane Fielder continues to draw inspiration from lockdown exercise walks in her local area.

“Magical Dusk- The River Aire, Esholt, was motivated by a route in Lee Senior’s  ‘Walking Wi’ One Foot in the Aire’  guide. The view captures the fading light at the end of an icy winter’s day,” said David.

Jane has also come up with a series of wildflower paintings – their origins were a packet of seeds won, serendipitously, in a pub raffle which, after planting last spring, developed into a swathe of colour across her garden and brought joy throughout the summer.

David has largely returned to the trees that fascinate and inspire him, whether they be a majestic, solitary ash in Wharfedale, the repeated patterns of a silver birch copse, or wider landscapes such as local beauty spot Chellow Dene.

The exhibition will run until April 30. Visit the gallery website: davidstarleyartist.com/bingley/