BEAUMONT Gallery in Mere is hosting Face Place Plant.

The exhibition features drypoint prints by Charlotte Harker, which are based on her drawings of people, architecture, landscapes and trees, alongside original porcelain masks, sculptures and stoneware heads and faces of people past and present by Jitka Palmer.

The exhibition runs from Saturday (October 21) until November 5.

Andrew Walworth of Beaumont Gallery said: “I met Charlotte Harker in a friend’s London gallery and was really intrigued by her great skill with drypoint printing which she uses in a really compelling way. We’re also very pleased to welcome Jitka Palmer on a return visit, this time showing off her formidable skills with porcelain and stoneware.”

Charlotte Harker said: “Drypoint printing is known as Intaglio printmaking in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line, or sunken area, holds the ink. Intaglio printing is a natural extension of my drawing practice. The tree images are from a series of drawings, drypoint and giclee prints and an ongoing endeavour to document the shape and skeleton of particular trees in a variety of locations. They are portraits as well as a feature of a landscape and a description of a particular species. The vocabulary of marks which form the drawings is influenced by the woodblock prints and screenprints of contemporary Chinese Printmaking and the graphic art of 19th Century Japan.”

Jitka Palmer said: “My heads, faces and masks reflect my ongoing fascination with the most expressive part of the human body and are based on sketches of people I would love to meet, sketches from newspapers and from life. Clay allows me to experiment with colour, to flirt with portraiture and include narrative element, humour and play.”

Admission is free. For more information go to beaumontgallery.co.uk.