WITH less than a week to the Art Trail in Ilkley we are continuing our spotlight on exhibiting artists.

Libby Jubb will be exhibiting for the first time this year but is very excited about being part of the community of Trail artists in 2015.

Meanwhile, Sarah Harris has exhibited before on the Trail and has been very busy since the 2013 Trail bringing her work to a wider audience both in Yorkshire and beyond.

Harris has been awarded People’s Choice Flourish Award for excellence in Printmaking in Yorkshire in 2014, and this year, one of her prints was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Libby Jubb

Jubb studied jewellery making and 3D design at Bradford and Craven College. She works from her home studio in Ilkley, where she is inspired by the nature from her garden and the surrounding landscape.

She works mainly in silver using traditional methods to create jewellery. She specialises in working with wire, hand crocheting and making delicate flowers. She likes to work with customers to make something special, adding a significant gemstone or hand stamping words onto the piece. Her latest collection was a result of volunteering on a 3 year project to collect information on the cup and ring stones on Ilkley Moor. Motifs are embedded into rock textured silver to create organic pieces. "My aim was to translate what I saw on the rocks of the moor into silver."

Her Bird themed jewellery depicts delicate hand pierced silver birds sitting on branches. "I was watching the birds from my studio and wanted to make a collection showing the stages of life we share with them - lovebirds, nesting families and fledgling birds."

She has worked with several galleries in Yorkshire and exhibited at art fairs across the Country. Her work is available locally through Nora's shop in Ilkley and online.,She also teaches jewellery making.

Sarah Harris

Harris's work consists of limited edition silk screen prints, taken from the artists original drawings, depicting places of interest.

Having been reintroduced to drawing and printing in 2011, Harris now combines her work with a passion for travel and a curiosity for her surroundings, with an aim to inspire exploration and evoke memories, whilst viewing subjects in such a way it feels they have just been discovered.

In 2014 Harris was awarded People's Choice Flourish Award, for Excellence in Printmaking in Yorkshire and in 2013 she was given The Curzon Exhibition Award as the New Lights Art Prize. This year one of Sarah's prints has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015.

All the pictures in this article have been produced by Anna Nolan, herself an exhibiting artist on the Trail this year.