A SPA artist is canvassing support by staging a display of his latest work.

Artist Neiil Lowdon's work is on display at the Foal Yard Gallery in Bransford, near Worcester. The exhibition includes local and coastal landscapes which are painted in a variety of forms including oils, watercolours and pastels.

Neiil paints in the open air to capture the character of the landscape, sunlight, weather and nature in his work.

"I need to paint, in the way that writers must write," he said. "I love the smell of paint, the brushes and turpentine and the daily activity of painting.

"My main hope with my paintings is that people will absorb them and get to need to look at them each day - not immediately, but bit by bit."

Until last year Neiil lived in Cornwall working from his studio there and exhibiting widely in the South West, London and Europe.

He was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and studied at Falmouth College of Art where he graduated with a BA hons degree in fine arts and won the David Murray Studentship for Landscape Painting from the Royal Academy in the same year.

He then went on to study at the L'Ecole des beaux Arts, in Orleans and after marrying Lucy he moved to the town.

The exhibition at the Foal Yard Gallery, called Still Lives and Landscapes, is on display until Saturday, September 14. It is open from 9am to 5pm.