A COOL new exhibition with a lingering taste of summer will go on display in Settle next week.

Ice-conic, the autumn exhibition at the Gallery on the Green in Settle, which runs from Monday to November 25, celebrates the ice cool icons that draw people into buying that most British of summer dishes: the ice cream cornet.

Exhibitor Paul Rogers has put together a collection of photographic images illustrating ‘ice cream point-of-sale models’ in a variety of different settings and circumstances.

Although made in a range of locations most, if not all, of the cones carry the same message, which is to promote the sale of ice cream, with all the pleasure and enjoyment that this entails.

As the cones become an enduring artefact of British cultural identity – icons – the gallery thought it appropriate to exhibit the work in a now permanent example of British 'iconicity', the red telephone box.

Paul has exhibited previously in the Gallery on the Green with ‘Life Line’ in the summer of 2013, and joined Roger Taylor with a project in the spring of 2015 entitled ‘Click’.

Paul said of his current exhibition: “The attachment and interest in the cones was probably spurred on by nostalgia for childhood treats. But eventually the cones began to relate; interact; contrast with the context and surroundings in which they appear – and then the drive, satisfaction and pleasure to look, see and create a more extensive and meaningful collection is established.”

People’s interest in the display cones will be further explored in the introduction to the pictures by Paul’s colleague, Dr Jill Fernie-Clarke, which forms part of the exhibition.

Paul was Associate Head of the School of Art and Design and a principal lecturer in photography at Blackpool and The Fylde College.

Other photographic work by Paul has been exhibited in local, regional and national venues in the UK and the USA.