SALISBURY Arts Centre’s latest exhibition displays an intriguing range of paintings and sculpture sparked by creative rules.

By the Rules showcases the work of Carole Pearson and Guy Bigland, both selected from their final year MFA exhibitions at Bath Spa University for the way they use systems to generate their work.

Guy’s paintings result from a set of rules he constructed based on the Sudoku grid.

Carole sets herself the discipline of making a sculpture a day for distinct periods of time.

During January 2015 both artists used their unique systems to generate new work for this exhibition.

Guy Bigland suddenly began painting again in 2007 after graduating 12 years earlier.

In 2010 Guy returned to what by then had become Bath Spa University and completed his MFA.

It was during this time that he developed this system of rules to govern his painting methods. The system he created uses the numbers in a Sudoku grid to decide nine factors for each painting.

These include colour, composition and method of applying the paint, size and type of surface, title, price and ultimately their position on the wall.

Guy also creates works that use just text, restructuring familiar words to create unfamiliar new arrangements.

He has extended his ongoing Four Letter Words project for Salisbury Arts Centre to include new words garnered from within the building and grounds.

Sculptor Carole Pearson took a BTEC in ceramics, fine metal work and glass followed by a BA Ceramics degree at Bath Spa University in 2000.

A residency and exhibition at the Guldagergaard ceramic research centre in Denmark began her move away from functional ceramics and into a more sculptural way of making.

She began an MA Ceramics course at Bath Spa in 2011 but switched to the Fine Art MFA to fully express her artistic ideas.

Carole works with diverse materials and objects, from industrial materials such as expanding foam to more usual sculptural materials such as porcelain.

By the Rules runs from today until Sunday, March 29 and is free to view at the Arts Centre from Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 3pm.