CHANCE encounter with West Cornwall artist Anthony Frost at the opening of the St Ives exhibition at York Art Gallery in May 2009 has led to Lotte Inch mounting the Frost show at her pop-up gallery in York.

“We spent the whole evening talking and I’ve stayed in touch,” says Lotte. “We’ve talked for a while about Anthony showing some of his work up in Yorkshire.

“He looks after his father, Sir Terry Frost’s estate with the Stoneman Gallery in Penzance, and they’ve given us two of Terry’s works for the show on consignment.”

Lotte assembled the exhibition in only five weeks for her Lotte Inch Gallery in High Petergate, bringing to her temporary, delightfully designed rooms a festive celebration of art from a small collection of celebrated British artists.

Original works in acrylic, Hessian, netting, cloth, flag material, canvas and even a bootlace by Anthony Frost complement the prints from his late father, while renowned London paper-cut artist and designer Rob Ryan is represented by limited-edition screen prints as well as mugs and egg cups. Look out for the misspelling of ‘Neigbour’ amid the multitude of precisely cut-out words in We Don’t Fly North.

“I worked with Rob at the National Trust so I know him through that,” says Lotte, explaining how she signed him up for the show at such short notice.

Work from York’s own Mark Hearld, Emily Sutton, Emily Hayes, Michael Kirkman and Ed Kluz is on show too “I was at school with Emily at Bootham and at York Art College with Emily and Michael, when we were taught by Mark,” says Lotte.

“Ed Kluz has become part of the York scene, and although he’s in Brighton now, he’s become a really good friend.”

Alas for Lotte, despite the best endeavours of the Keep The Lotte Inch Gallery Open campaign on Facebook, Frost will be her third and last pop-up show in High Petergate. What’s more she will have to pop off sooner than she expected at the instruction of the landlord. The exhibition will now end on Christmas Eve at 3.30pm rather than on December 29.

All works are available for sale, as are cards, books, tea towels, vintage dance cards, alphabet bags and scarves from Karen Mabon’s York company Red Brick. Opening hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 10am to 5.30pm; Thursday Christmas opening, 10am to 8pm; and Sunday, 11am to 5pm.