A GROUP of artists have come together to stage a three-day exhibition at Jardinique Garden Antiques in Beech, near Alton, with a percentage of sales going to Home-Start WeyWater.

Entitled Just Four+One, the exhibition will run from November 18 to 20 and will feature Just Four Contemporary Artists, a group of four female artists who paint and exhibit together, who will be joined for the occasion by sculptor Craig Narramore.

Just Four co-founder Jenny Hill-Norton said: “The four of us find that we produce our most interesting and inspirational pieces while working together. There is a collective energy when we meet and our work is created for the sheer pleasure of painting.

“It is all about experiencing a place or object, not about representing it. Emotional reactions to what we are looking at are an important part of the creative process and something unexpected often reveals itself in the process of working.”

The artists believe their creative collaboration has made them brave and freed to take risks, which is releasing for them and exciting for the viewer. Their work is highly individual and expressive and their subject matter includes landscapes, figures and still life in a variety of media, including watercolours, acrylics, oils and collage with expressive charcoal drawings.

Sculptor Craig Narramore produces some unusual work using natural wood, metals, composites and coloured resins, adding a unique 3D dynamic to the show.

All work on display will be on sale, with a percentage going to Home-Start WeyWater, an independent charity working in the Alton, Bordon and Liphook area which offers friendship and support to struggling parents who have at least one child under the age of five, to help prevent family crisis and breakdown.

The Just Four+One exhibition is open from 11am to 5pm on Friday and Saturday (November 18-19) and from 10am to 4pm on Sunday, November 20.

The Just Four artists (+ one):

* Sophie Bartlett: Based in Four Marks, Sophie works in a variety of media, sometimes combining it with collage, working directly from the subject, from drawings or from memory. She describes her work as “loosely impressionistic” encompassing still life, figures, as well as urban and industrial landscapes.

* Jo Ellis: Based in Swanmore, Jo is a trained graphic designer and illustrator. Returning to fine art, she draws expressively in charcoal and then works into paint, enjoying the layering qualities of using mixed media, including watercolour, acrylic and oils. With an emphasis on allowing the image to reveal itself in the process of working, she abstracts subject matter from nature, landscapes, seascapes and still lifes, but with a strong sense of the place or object.

* Jenny Hill-Norton: Based in Newton Valence, near Selborne, Jenny has travelled from the detail of engraving glass, through scaled drawings for garden design, to bursting out into the freedom and energy of watercolours. She is adding oils to the fun, particularly enjoying the depth of colour this brings. Her wide subject matter includes landscapes, flowers, still life, animals and nudes.

* Anthea Stilwell: Studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, and then taught art at Harrow School for 25 years. “My subject matter is wide ranging, sometimes becoming abstract or semi abstract, always built on drawing and often memory. I just enjoy the conversation and the struggle with the medium I have chosen. I never have an end in mind, I just stop when the work feels right,” she said.

* Craig Narramore: A unique craftsman combining the latest technologies used in his successful career creating special effects and props in the film industry, using metals, resins and composites with his passion for working with the organic qualities of natural wood such as burr, walnut and beech. Adding his own contemporary twist to create unique, unusual and tactile sculpture.

Just Four + One have exhibited widely together over the last three years at The Gallery in Cork Street, London; The Affordable Art Fair, Bristol; Brighton Art Fair; and City Space in Winchester.