THREE glass makers new to Pyramid Gallery, in York, are exhibiting in the Glass 2003 show.

Among the British studio glass makers on show until July 6 at the gallery in Stonegate are Kirsteen Aubrey, Ronald Pennell and Kevin Wallhead.

Aubrey, who has worked with glass artists in New York and Switzerland, is course leader for the BA course in glass and ceramics at the University of Sunderland. Her work is inspired by landscape and nature, and the Lake District has prompted her series of works in glass and slate, while other pieces use coloured glass with silver leaf that is dipped into the furnace to produce a layering effect.

Pennell is one of Britain's most celebrated artists working in glass. His work spans bronze reliefs, medallic art, printmaking, kiln-cast sculpture in glass and engraving on glass and metal.

In 1993 he was made an honorary professor at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and in 2001 he was appointed honorary professor of glass at the University of Wolverhampton.

Wallhead is exhibiting figurative glass panels. "The work I'm now producing is a personal response to my interest in drawing the human form," he says. "This interest has enabled me to produce alternatives to traditional drawing methods, using materials not normally associated with the discipline.

"Glass I have found is ideal; by using inclusions within the glass, drawings can be re-created to produce an image that is simple and true, much like that of a line drawing."

Other exhibitors in Glass 2003 are Adam Aaronson, Paul Barcroft, Brian and Jenny Blanthorn, Jane Charles, Marjory Peart, Andrew Potter, Colin Reid and Patrick Stern.

On the gallery walls are original prints by two York artists, Julie Bailey and Roger Wilson. Bailey, from Stockton-on-the-Forest, attained first class honours in fine art printmaking at Ripon and York St John College in 2001 and exhibits regularly at Pyramid Gallery. She combines intaglio and relief printing methods to create images that she describes as "internal landscapes of the self and states of being", and her latest handmade prints at Pyramid were first shown at her British Applied Arts show in Dubai.

Wilson first pursued a career as a photographer and took a post as senior lecturer in photography at the University of Sunderland in 1995. The series of prints in his Fragments Of Ireland exhibition is derived from photographs taken in Ireland of fragments of rock and other textured forms, expressed through lithographic film and printed using an etching box.

Images of the work can be viewed on the website www.pyramidgallery.com

Updated: 10:20 Friday, May 30, 2003