THREE Peaks Arts will next month stage its annual arts trail.

Starting on October 11 with an opening reception and exhibition at the former primary school in Horton-in-Ribblesdale - the Three Peaks ‘Art Hub’ the exhibition and ‘open studios’ event will run for two weeks and feature the work of a variety of artists and craftspeople.

There will also be workshops and events including a student residency for the second year running by Fine Art students from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Four artists will also hold their open studio at the hub including award winning ceramicist Jan Huntley-Peace, textile artist Pam Shackleton, and painter Brian Plummer.

Also exhibiting will be William Tillyer, a contemporary British artist known for his abstract watercolour and oil paintings. Tillyer studied under William Coldstream at the Slade School of Art during the early 1960s.

His works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery and the Fort Worth Arts Museum, Texas, among others.

For the arts trail he will be showing a portfolio of prints in an exhibition entitled ‘Against Nature’.

A further event new to this year is the collaborative exhibition ‘Collections’ at Horton Railway Station by Josie Beszant, Hester Cox and Charlotte Morrison.

For the last four years the three artists have been working with a number of museum archives and with their own personal collections to create work that explores why we are compelled to collect things, the meaning carried within the collections and how we organise and display the objects.

The Norman church in Horton will be the home for an ethereal installation by Hester Cox, ‘Within These Walls’ which celebrates the Yorkshire Dales endangered upland hay meadows.

The church will showcase the five 4-metre long hand-printed hangings and visitors can see them throughout trail week as well as enjoying tea and cake provided by the church.

Pip and Rebecca of Wallace Seymour Fine Art Products will be showing from their factory which hand makes artist paints in the village and there will be another group of artists showing together from painter Penny Hunt’s studio including contemporary jeweller Caroline Brogden, a jeweller working in precious metals.

In Settle, various artists will have their studios open, all within easy walking distance of each other, from ceramics made by Rachel in the Dales to prints by Mike Crompton and photography by Mike Kilyon and Mary Woolf who has recently been commissioned to design new boundary road signs for Craven.

Over in Bentham amongst the artists taking part will be painters Susan Calverley Parker whose latest works are based on the feelings and emotions invoked for her by Yorkshire landscapes, Tony Roberts whose work includes paintings which are informed by Buddhism and explore still-life and Doris Rohr whose methods and processes derive from depth immersion in the environment, and printmaker Rachel Thornton who will be showing with her resident artist on an exchange scheme funded by Great Place Lakes and Dales to look at how young artists work in rural settings across the world.

Open Studios will run on the weekends of October 12 and 13, and on October 19 and 20.

To find out more, visit:threepeaksarts.co.uk.