A MAJOR retrospective of the Cleveland artist, Len Tabner, is to be shown at the North Light gallery in Huddersfield.

After Japan follows his visit to the Haku-San mountains and continues the artist's exploration of man's connection with and love of the earth he inhabits.

Born in 1946, he grew up in South Bank and studied art and design at Bath academy of art, later gaining an MA in fine art at the university of Reading.

He has had one-man exhibitions throughout the country, including Agnew's in London, the Laing gallery in Newcastle and the Ulster museum in Belfast.

Having grown up beside water, he now lives and works from a cottage overlooking the North Sea on the cliff top at Whitby. The weather, man's struggle with his environment and battle with the elements are central to his work - so pivotal, in fact, that he has even painted while tied to the deck of a storm-tossed Royal Navy destroyer. In Alaska, he left ship and walked on the ice.

Though the sea is his first subject, he has also worked in extremes of weather in ship yards, deserted villages and remote places in Japan.

The exhibition runs from October 31 to December 22. The North Light gallery is sited in converted spinning sheds within Armitage Bridge Mills, a former textile complex, and is open Wednesday to Saturday, 11am-4.30.