Preview of the Timeless City exhibition at Salisbury Museum

The Timeless City is a collection of watercolour paintings by Andrew Lucas who grew up in Salisbury.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, October 8 and runs for 12 weeks, closing on Saturday December 31. Visitors will be able to see the paintings during Salisbury Museum open hours.

Mr Lucas aims to capture the "essence of this historic city" by painting the familiar scenes he grew up around.

He said: "For me, Salisbury is a city that never changes. There's a wonderful calmness to the place because it's so historic, it's a constant. It feels timeless, you could go back perhaps 200 years and it would feel the same way."

Andrew Lucas (Image: Public)

Famous local landmarks are depicted in the exhibition, including Salisbury Cathedral, Fish Row and Myles Place, as well as many others.

Mr Lucas moved to Torquay in Devon 20 years ago but said these places still gives him the same "comforting feeling" as they did when he was a child.

He added: "I painted familiar scenes and it’s a real challenge to capture some of these buildings in water colour. That’s what inspires me to capture it, and to do them justice they deserve the attention given to them.

"I hope it’s an exhibition where people will see familiar images from around Salisbury but see it from the way I see it and notice something they’ve never seen before."

'The Timeless City' will be on show at Salisbury Museum (Image: Salisbury Museum)

Hoping the exhibition "brings joy to people's day" as these scenes have done for him, Mr Lucas has been working on the paintings since February 2022.

Art was Mr Lucas' passion from a young age, but he now specialises in watercolour. He said: "In my teens I taught myself watercolour and the rest is history.

"I like the sense of urgency and not really knowing where it's going to go."

To see The Timeless City exhibition, visit Salisbury Museum in the Cathedral Close from October 8.