AN artist from Addingham is showing his work in the picturesque surroundings of Ripon Cathedral.

Mike Smith is among artists exhibiting in The Great North Art Show, which runs until Sunday, September 20.

Each exhibitor has a complete display screen to themselves in the Cathedral and one of the stipulations is that exhibitors should provide a themed display.

Mike is a printmaker, who works through the medium of reduction lino printing, a process that employs up to 15 different colour printing stages but only one printing block.

He said: "The continuing theme of my work is my attempt to capture the unique essence of a ‘moment’; a bird alights but has yet to settle; the calm of a scene is disturbed by panicked flight. That moment can have the seeming inconsequence of a drop of water about to fall from the beak of a swan or the dramatic ‘split second’ of seeing gannets majestically soaring above a breaking wave."