E-SCAPE, the latest art exhibition by the Vyvyan-Penney family with Bill Crumbleholme, opens tomorrow in Upwey, near Weymouth.

Included in this year’s show will be a Green Man carved by Mark Vyvyan-Penney from a metre section of English Oak.

He said: “It was a commission that I took on last year from a lady from Bournemouth. It began as a small relief carving and grew and grew to resemble something that Grinling Gibbons – the famous Dutch sculptor and carver – might have been frightened by. It’s taken me the whole year to complete and now my arms are falling off!”

This year’s Dorset Art Weeks experience presented new and exciting opportunities for Mark and Bill and since May they have been working on primitive methods of casting bronze with the Ancient Wessex Network. Mark’s three-metre unicorn now has a bronze horn.

Potter Bill’s new collection of Raku pots represents a step forward in his development of ancient forms of pottery.

Everyone is now familiar with Bill’s interest in Beakers once used for Bronze Age burials and his latest work makes use of this knowledge and applies colour to it.

“I am happiest representing the Ancient World which inspires my works” said Bill.

The Bronze Festival on the Ridgeway allowed Jenny Vyvyan-Penney to display her Jurassic Coast paintings and photographs and these will also be included in the show.

She bases her work on her knowledge of the local countryside and said: “My passion is colour. I feel there is something important in the shape and patterns that I see.

“I sense I have spent my whole life in a room that I’ve longed to be free from. Hence my work represents ‘an escape to the countryside’.”

E-scape is at Upwey Old School, opposite the Wishing Well, from tomorrow until Sunday, September 12, from 10am until 5pm daily.

Call 01305 812125 for further details.