SURELY it cannot be possible to become even more ubiquitous, but prolific artist Malcolm Ludvigsen is giving it a good go.

Already exhibiting at this month’s Open Studios show at Bar Lane Studios in York, the York professor is participating in two more shows from this weekend, and another is on the horizon.

Malcolm joins Kate Kenney, Jean Luce, Steve Barnsley and Julia Davis for Expressions in the Triton Gallery at Sledmere House, Driffield, where the Yorkshire landscape will be expressed through the eyes of these five very different York artists, from Sunday to August 20.

Opening hours are 11am to 4pm, except Mondays and Fridays, and there is a chance to meet the artists over a glass of wine and nibbles on the first day.

Malcolm’s solo show, Bridlington Beach – A Year In The Life Of A Beach In Oil Paint, will run in The Brides Room at Sewerby Hall, near Bridlington, from Saturday until October 24, and he will team up with Kate Kenney for A Breath Of Fresh Air – Plein-air Paintings Of The Yorkshire Wolds And Coast at Beverley Art Gallery from August 28 to October 16.

“Like me, Kate is a plein-air oil landscape painter, and we usually paint together, but we perceive the world in very different ways,” says Malcolm.

“Her painting style is more quirky.”

Jean Luce’s chosen medium is watercolour. “She uses this to great effect to capture her impressions of the more wild and rocky places of Yorkshire,” says Malcolm.

Steve Barnsley is a photographer and painter with a love of the Yorkshire Wolds.

“His photographs can be stunningly beautiful and seem to capture the very essence of the Wolds, while his paintings tend to be wild and turbulent and sometimes quite huge – and he even does many of them on the spot, directly in front of the subject,” says Malcolm.

“He’s truly an extreme plein-air painter!

“The way he slaps the paint on would put Jackson Pollock to shame.”

Julia Davis combines her talents as a potter and writer by inscribing her pots with her stories and sometimes old love letters.

“She has a gift for writing fairy stories set in exotic landscapes, hence the landscape connection,” says Malcolm.

Julia’s story pots will be complemented by a closed-loop tape player playing her stories continuously throughout the exhibition in Sledmere House’s converted stable block.

These audio tapes are set to music, and have been made by sound artist Damian Murphy at the University of York.