HARBOUR House in Kingsbridge is the venue for an exhibition of travel paintings exploring the wilder and less frequented parts of the landscape. Seizing the Moment opened at the gallery on Tuesday, August 6.

Margaret Deans, Christine Linfield and Anne Scarratt present their third joint exhibition at Harbour House. Having worked together for twelve years, they regularly paint together in Devon, Cornwall and Scilly, and have just set off for their third visit to Shetland.

There is an opportunity to meet all of the artists tomorrow, Saturday, August 10, from 12pm until 4pm, with an informal gallery talk at 2pm.

While working in Cornwall towards this exhibition Margaret Deans found that the unpredictable weather encouraged a shift in practice. She says: 'I have been enjoying the sudden shifts of light that illuminate the land, the dark sky which enhances the colours of land and sea, the clarity of an early morning frosty sun, and the rarity value of days when I could work outside.

'Working primarily in mixed media, focusing on abstract shapes and colour, I seek to evoke the potent mix of landscape and weather, seizing the moment as it happens.'

Christine Linfield lives and works on Dartmoor, her inspiration coming from land, sea and constantly shifting weather patterns. She explains: 'Whenever possible I work on site. Walking in the landscape is an integral part of the process of making paintings, and increasingly I sense the need and the power of the process of returning to familiar places.

Christine's smaller landscapes are painted on panels outdoors, and the larger ones on canvas or board in the studio using for reference the smaller paintings, sketches, and the memory of the experience.

For Anne Scarratt, the concept of seizing the moment represents taking whatever the weather has to offer, even at its gloomiest, and using it to transmit her feelings into paint. Last winter, she says: 'I took a small sketchbook around the deserted lanes of our village, trying to look anew at the familiar landscapes and vistas.

'From this beginning I continued in the clearing weather, it became something of a quest to seek out more overlooked places which offered an opportunity of depicting these unspoilt Devon lanes.'

Opening times will be 10am to 5pm daily, until the close of the exhibition on Sunday, August 18. Admission is free.