Debbie Loane has taken a spring sabbatical from managing the Lund Gallery near Easingwold to develop her own artistic diary of the Yorkshire landscape.

A notice on the website reads: “The gallery is open ‘by appointment only’ until June 10, 2011 (best to call at least a day in advance to check someone will be in – as Debbie may be out on the Moors painting...!).”

The results of those moorland excursions can be seen at the Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole, in an intimate series of works entitled Debbie Loane, February To May 2011.

The show opened last Saturday – although the official preview is not until this Saturday from 7pm to 9pm – and will run in the museum’s gallery space until July 3. Unusually, the artwork is pinned to the wall, rather than framed formally, in a fresh approach to display.

Debbie’s visual diary expresses her response to the ever-changing effects of light, wind, rain and sunshine on the North Yorkshire landscape.

“February To May 2011 consists of a series of around 70 small panels,” she says. “Each documents a ‘moment’ in time beginning in late January and continuing through right until the moment of installation. I set myself the challenge of working to a specified size which was small and intimate, as it had been a long-held ambition to create a large-scale work consisting of many small parts.”

In essence, Debbie’s works capture her vision of the exterior world and overlay it with an interior, subjective and emotional landscape.

Gallery manager Andy Dalton puts it this way: “Working directly from her subject, Debbie has chosen materials that enable her to translate the immediacy of her responses most truthfully.

“The challenge of capturing the buffeting effect of wind and physical experience of rain has resulted in her combining traditional materials, such as charcoal and paint, with less traditional media, such as household paint and colouring pens.

“The resulting images are expressive while remaining redolent of the landscape of North Yorkshire, incorporating recognisable elements of the geography into the matrix of paint, charcoal and other materials.”

Some of the drawings are simple linear compositions that describe a drive or a walk through a landscape; others are more complex and subjective.

“While these pieces have been founded on my preoccupations about landscape, nature and the ‘commodification’ of the natural world, the process of their coming into being is as much about what it means for me to be a creative person seeing my place in this world,” Debbie says.

• Admission to the Ryedale Folk Museum gallery, Hutton-le-Hole, near Kirkbymoorside, is free. Daily opening times are 10am to dusk. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue, available throughout the run.