BRIDGWATER Art Centre's gallery is set to reopen next month.

Organisers have scheduled three contrasting exhibitions for the autumn, with the first opening on Tuesday, October 6.

The autumn season will begin with a collaboration from Artwork Together, an association of three local artists who work in different media in order to present a common theme.

Their theme for the gallery’s re-opening is Change and the artworks will showcase their response to the changing moods of Steart Marshes in their chosen medium.

Siân Martin is a teacher and textile artist. She exhibits with international textile groups – the 62 Group and the Textile Study Group. She has recently been involved in the Stroud SIT Festival, taking part in the exciting DIS/rupt event with the Textile Study Group.

Siân lives near Steart Marshes and her work is influenced by local environments, particularly the Somerset Levels and Steart.

Siân said: “We have been visiting Steart Marshes on a regular basis to watch and respond to this unique and continually changing environment.

"Differences in light, weather, tide and season have given us opportunities to record our responses during the year and at different times of the day.

"During recent years we have been initiating and developing work that considers light, movement, rhythm; while challenging ourselves and suggesting fresh directions for change in our artistic practice we hope also that our work will encourage others to look at Steart’s impressive landscape in new ways.”

Also part of the Art Together collective is Lesley Roberts, who initially trained as a photographer but has spent the last two decades working as a jeweller, making, selling and exhibiting her pieces nationally.

However for this project she has returned to photography, developing her original skills.

She has used this medium to record and illustrate the beauty and changing landscape of Steart Marshes.

Meanwhile Pauline Lerry works as a teacher and artist in Somerset and has exhibited widely, including recently at the Penwith Gallery in St. Ives.

Pauline says collaborating on the Steart Marshes project has created fresh directions within her practice.