A SPECIAL art show begins at the Town Mill in Lyme Regis on Sunday.

Master Painter Robert Organ's works will be on show at the Malthouse Gallery from May 7 to 21, followed by works from Anthony Frost in mid-September.

Over the past year, Philip Clayton of Town Mill Arts in partnership with Deborah Wood of The Art Room, have invited internationally acclaimed artists from the southwest of England to hold special exhibitions in Lyme’s Malthouse Gallery, curated by Ms Wood.

Last year the gallery displayed works by painters Patrick Jones and John Hubbard, alongside ceramicist Chris Prindl.

Robert Organ, was born in Somerset and studied at Bristol’s West of England College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he became a Slade Scholar in 1954.

Three years later, he moved to Cornwall where he taught painting and drawing at Falmouth School of Art, developing it into a major art school with a national reputation for excellence.

For a time in the mid-1970s, Robert pursued a parallel career in architecture, and, as his reputation grew, he was invited to make a number of films for the BBC. Due to difficulties with planning, however, Robert gave up designing buildings and turned to painting full-time, becoming artist in residence at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum in 1978 and having many solo shows over the following decades.

At 84, Robert continues his life-long pursuit of painting people, still life arrangements and nature. In this exhibition visitors will enjoy his superbly rendered new paintings of golden carp, verdant gardens and his beloved French landscape.

*The exhibition is open daily from 10.30am to 4.30pm, entrance is free, and more information can be found on www.townmillarts.co.uk or www.theartroomtopsham.co.uk