ALMOST half of Green Door's 100 members have work on display in a major new exhibition opening this month.

Inside Outside opens in the basement gallery at Kendal Museum on Wednesday February 15, where pieces being showcased include a wide range of two and three dimensional work with textiles, ceramics, wood and glass, alongside the more traditional paintings, prints, drawings and photographs.

Exhibiting artists include Gordon Baddeley, Roger Bell, Debbie Copley, Barbra Cropper, John Davenport, Sue David, Mike Healey, Marion Kuit, Cally Lawson, Richard Light, Kath Lockhart, Liz Lyon, Delcia McNeil, Angie Mitchell, Elizabeth Shorrock, Evelyn Sinclair, Rosie Wates and Frances Winder.

Kendal artist Evelyn Sinclair says: " I'm really excited about my latest series of drawings based on musicians.

"As the musician plays for me, I'm watching for those intense moments when they seem to lose themselves in the music. On the outside we can enjoy their wonderful performance, while on the inside it looks as though the musician has gone to another plane - it's almost like a meditation.

"Plus the clean, contemporary gallery space downstairs at Kendal Museum is a brilliant venue in which to show them."

Printmaker Sue David is exhibiting two monotypes, which have a very close relationship to each other, as both are created from the same plate. Outer Reaches was made first, by overprinting several layers of colour to create a remote remembered landscape. The underlying inks remaining on the plate unexpectedly formed the piece Innermost.

New member Mike Healey, who is exhibiting a diorama and a drawing, says: " Nature is never quite what it seems. Within the entrails of a large cactus there lurks a plant that, should you come too close, will probably bite your hand off.

"A 'pretty' landscape actually consists of briars that scratch and whose inner 'character' is, in reality, raw in tooth and claw."

Green Door administrator Janice Benson adds: " It’s a sign of the strength of our partnership with Kendal Museum that we currently have two exhibitions here.

"It’s great to be back in the basement gallery. We invited our members to create new work on the theme of 'Inside Outside' and this space provides a blank canvas which displays that work to great advantage."

The exhibition runs at Kendal Museum from Wednesday February 15 to Friday April 14, and is free to view between 10am and 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday.