CREATIVE work produced as part of the degree studies of two North-East artists have gone on show in city centre workshop units.

Billed as "Contemporary Art at Fowler's Yard", the exhibition features 44 works by Tom Rowan and Kim Graham, from County Durham.

Tom, 48, a mature student from Esh Winning, Kim, 24, from Spennymoor, are about to start the second year of a fine art honours degree course at Newcastle's Northumbria University.

Both completed a foundation year at New College Durham.

Tom said the pieces picked for the fortnight-long display are a selection of what they have painted and drawn during the first year of the university course.

His selection features etchings, oils and acrylic works, many on the theme of the tango, inspired by a Latin dance class in London.

Kim's work uses contrasting textures and colours, including a beach study featuring her and her dog, Ben, at Crimdon Dene.

The semi-rotten wooden plank on which the painting appears, and some of the materials on the scene, were all debris collected from the beach at Crimdon Dene.

Not to be left out, several pieces of school art work by Kim's six-year-old daughter Adrienne have also crept into the exhibition.

All can be seen in workspaces two and three in the Fowler's Yard complex in Back Silver Street, behind the indoor market in Durham, each day, except Sundays, between 10am and 4pm, until August 31.