AN artist is hoping to make her stamp on the world with an innovative exhibition.

A collection of Birmingham artist Sharon Baker's works, including a collage of stamps ordered according to colour, opened at Kidderminster Library Gallery on Saturday and will be on display until August 24. Sharon Baker with her first solo exhibition at Kidderminster Library Gallery.

Ms Baker said Kidderminster was an ideal venue for the showing called Arrangements for Impulse and Order because of its postal heritage.

Sir Rowland Hill, who was born in Kidderminster, founded the Penny Post, a precursor to Royal Mail.

Other articles in the exhibition include prints and wall-mounted pieces, reflecting the artist's interest in the ideas of collecting, cataloguing and displaying visual data from many visual and abstract sources. The artist's childhood passion for collecting stamps predominates in one piece in particular called An elaborate set of self imposed rules.

This innovative piece, which takes its inspiration from Gerhard Richter's colour field paintings and DIY store paint charts, consists of eight colour panels of reconfigured stamps ranging from blues and greens to browns and yellows. The 33-year-old artist, who studied fine art at Wolverhampton University and runs art workshops, said she was looking forward to her first solo exhibition.

"It's work that I've been doing over the last couple of years and pieces of it have been exhibited elsewhere but it's the first time I've had a solo show so I'm very excited about it," she said.

"And I'm really pleased with how it looks because it's a lovely gallery in Kidderminster."

The artist, whose work has been exhibited across the Midlands and at the London Print Shop, added: "The piece with the stamps reminds me of what you'd see in a DIY store but a lot of the other pieces are abstract."

Other highlights of the unique showing include a series of bold red and blue screenprints of images derived from polaroid pictures and oscilloscope readings manipulated through the printing process. More information can be obtained by calling 01562 824500.