Four painters of the northern landscape will be showing their work in the Expressions II show at the Triton Gallery, opposite the entrance to Sledmere House in Sledmere, from Sunday.

Between them, Jean Luce, Kate Kenney, Malcolm Ludvigsen and Stephen Barnsley will provide different interpretations of familiar places.

Jean’s work is inspired by a love of rugged scenery and the elements represented in the varied landscape of Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Walking in the hills and countryside, she sketches directly, capturing the atmosphere and life of wild places.

“Although some of my work is fairly representational, I try to avoid the pretty or the predictable,” she says. “I love colour, but don’t like to be fixed to a particular style.”

Kate’s paintings span coast, moorland, peak and dale, taking inspiration directly from nature.

“I respond to the changing colours and shapes of the landscape first hand,” she says. “The weather has a direct impact on my work, and completion is often dictated by the wind, the sun and the rain. Working outside always adds an element of surprise.”

Her paintings convey exhilaration and freedom through their use of vibrant colour and form. “These open spaces are as essential to me as the air that I breathe,” she says.

The here, there and everywhere Malcolm Ludvigsen hardly needs an introduction to York Twenty4Seven readers. You already know he is a plein-air painter of indefatigable energy who is equally engaged when painting on a sunny beach at Scarborough or a bleak midwinter moorland.

You probably know that when not painting, Malcolm finds time to be a professor of mathematics with an international reputation for work on relativity, black holes and cosmology.

Stephen works in the east and North Yorkshire landscape at all times of the year, both as a painter and photographer. His latest paintings convey something of the underlying structure of Yorkshire landscapes and seascapes through the bold manipulation of oil paint.

“My aim in these works is to capture the timelessness of the scene in a quiet sort of way,” he says.

Expressions II runs at the Triton Gallery from Sunday to June 17 but is closed on Monday. Admission is free.