AN exhibition, 'A View of the Landscape', by six Northern artists including one from Ilkley, is to be held from July 23-27 (10am-4pm) by kind permission of Phillips Auctioneers, Hepper House, East Parade, Leeds.

The exhibition, sponsored by Masons Solicitors and BWS Construction Consultants, will be opened by the Hon Lady Worsley at 7pm on Monday, July 23, when a private view will be held from 6-8pm.

The landscape painters are Marie Walker Last (Ilkley); Mary Lord (Leeds); Emerson Mayes (Harrogate); James Naughton (Leeds); Tim Slatter (Bedale); Christopher Wood (Leeds).

Marie Walker Last studied at Chelsea School of Art and her work has evolved over the years from abstract expressionism to figurative landscape.

She has exhibited widely in this country and abroad, recently in a second retrospective exhibition at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford.

Her work is in many public collections including the Open University and the Universities of Leeds, York and Bradford, the Bank of England, Yorkshire Television and in many private collections.

Her landscapes evoke a vivid personal and imagined encounter with nature's forces and reveal the lyrical response of an artist alert to the beauties of nature.

The artists are donating 20 per cent of all sales to the RNLI and The Lighthouse Club Benevolent Fund.

A retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages, by Michael Dean, is to be shown at the Manor House, Castle Yard, Ilkley, from Saturday, July 28 to Sunday, September 16.

It will be open Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, Sundays 1-4pm.

Dean trained and worked as a cabinet maker, woodcarver and antiques restorer and taught woodcarving and life drawing in adult education, having always had a keen interest in the human form.

He was a member of the British Association of Art Therapists and the Scottish Society of Art and Psychopathology, lecturing extensively on aspects of psychiatric art within the Health Service.