UNDER The Influence is not a drunken display but a new collaborative exhibition at Pyramid Gallery in York inspired by Spanish travels.

Four artist printmakers spent two weeks at Brenda Hartill's studio in the village of Gaucin last year with the dual aims of learning new techniques from each other and producing a range of collaborative works to tour selected British galleries in 2005.

The artists, Mychael Barratt, Brenda Hartill, Anita Klein and Trevor Price, live and work in South East London and all exhibit regularly at Pyramid.

They have each evolved different techniques in their printmaking, including drypoint, etching, collagraph and hand-colouring techniques, and last year's collaboration has resulted in a range of prints, some created by all four artists, others involving only two.

The experience was captured on a 14-minute video, edited by Shelagh Brady, directed by Suzanne Campbell-Jones and produced by Mostly Movies, and this documentary will be shown during the opening next Saturday (July 23) and for the following week in the gallery in Stonegate.

The collaborative artists will be present at the opening from noon until 2.30pm, and their exhibition will run until September 6.

During this period, ceramic artists Jill Ford, from York, and Helen Martino, from Cambridge, will be exhibiting in the same gallery space. Ford studied 3D design at York College and produces candle holders and thrown and carved bowls in porcelain. Martino is known for her decorated, slab-built figurative and bird forms but has started to explore new dimensions in her work.

Updated: 09:05 Friday, July 15, 2005