AN exhibition of landscapes and battlefields by an artist of European renown will hit Bewdley Library Gallery on Wednesday.

And Cynthia Pearson, visual arts director of Bewdley Festival, is urging art lovers to make the most of the powerful display by Robert Perry, which includes paintings of Wyre Forest landscapes and First World War battlefields.

"It's a very interesting exhibition and Robert Perry is a very esteemed artist and people should come and see his work because it's great," she said of the forthcoming event celebrating endeavour and hope.

"There will be some local landscapes and he goes and paints the trenches in Northern France as they are now. And, although he pursues a very sad theme, there's a sort of hope with how the paintings turn out."

The roaming artist, whose work has been featured on British and French television, as well as in the Royal Academy, has painted battlefields of Ypres, The Somme and Verdun and is a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

He will also be presenting a lecture on the background of the images in his exhibition at Bewdley High School on Monday, October 20.

Some of the proceeds from this event, which will enable people to discuss his work, will be given to Amnesty International. More information for the exhibition which runs until October 26, and tickets for his talk, which starts at 8pm, can be obtained by calling 01299 404740.