Passport Green is the new, spring exhibition at Parkfields Town Gallery.

The exhibition is a fresh breath of spring air with exciting artists such as Paul Adams Groom - a Worcestershire artist, whose love for landscape and paint surface is reflected in his natural, colourful, spontaneous paintings.

From further afield comes Penny Berry Paterson, a printmaker and illustrator, producing her own prints from her workshop in Suffolk. Mainly working with lino blocks she produces complex and vibrant prints of coastal scenes and landscapes, sometimes using a torn paper technique to soften printed edges.

Deborah Poole is a textile artist living in Cornwall, working mainly in felt, creating one off decorative framed wall pieces by colour mixing and layering dyed wool fleece which is hand milled to produce an embedded image. Her inspiration comes from garden flora; her pieces celebrate the vitality of plant life.

Usch Spettigue, a German born artist, now living and working in East Anglia, makes functional, hand thrown, single fired, ceramic pots in stoneware.

Usch pays particular attention to shape and form producing rounded tactile jugs.

Daniel Boyle, another exhibiting ceramicist, has his workshop in Wales. His functional pieces have very distinctive dribbly surfaces attained through salt glazing techniques.

Alongside him is Lily Sawtell, a past favourite at Parkfields, returning with her humorous striking female sculptures that are for use inside and out, as fountains or planters, or just for decoration.

l 'Passport Green' runs until Wednesday May 8 2002. This exhibition is staged solely at Parkfields 'Town' Gallery. Open Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm.