Avon Valley Arts Society's Art Prize Exhibition runs until the 31st of August. It is very much a rural imagery exhibition, strong and vibrant despite the predominance of purple colour use.

Interestingly there is a high number of portraits in all mediums this year. One oil work, A Time to Reflect by Depassy, is an especially emotive piece in purple tones. The figure is realistically rendered against a background of textured space and verticals suggesting the life has just left the figure.

In contrast is Dawn Hodges' City Life, which is a hurly-burly of multiple figures rendered in a mix of media, including collage and print. It is almost mono-chromatic but very much alive.

Overall the exhibition is very much a colourist's delight with noticeably larger and bolder artworks this year. The judges decided to split the Oil/Acrylic prize between two entries; Helen's Farm by J. McCormick, a free little rural landscape, and Ruins by Kerry Lee, another rural landscape but with stronger colour and tighter design.