AFTER last year's successful show, The Lander Gallery in Truro is repeating the format of bringing together the wide range of ceramics it shows with paintings of Cornwall's Clay Country until February 21.

It is also that unique time of year when regular Lander Gallery artists offer work at discounted prices. Artists in this year's studio sale include Jenny Shaw-Browne, Gordon Hunt, Celia Jayne, John Laver and Anne Plummer. The sale continues only while work is available.

Cornwall has been famous for its clay excavated from the ground for over 150 years and this exhibition celebrates the landscape around the china clay works of St Austell with paintings by artists such as Stuart Thorn and Alan Arthurs.

Stuart has driven through the many facets of the china clay landscape over the past ten years and in the process has gathered a growing library of images which have inspired a body of work exploring the mining, reworking, removing, replacing and reprofiling of Mid-Cornwall.

Stuart said: "My paintings, in fast drying oil, reflect the scale and impact man has had on this area and on the ancient villages that make up the Clay Country."

Alan Arthurs combines nostalgic scenes of the china clay works and Charlestown, where he lives, in its heyday with contemporary scenes. Painted with the rare and unusual combination of enamel paint on perspex his pictures are colourful and full of detail.

Ceramicist Jenny Beavan bridges the gap between flat depictions of the Clay Country by making wall hangings from the china clay itself as well three dimensional forms. Jenny has had first-hand experience of the China Clay Country having been artist in residence with Imerys Mineral in 2001-02 and in 2008-09.

Jenny said: "My work in this exhibition is an exploration, from the perspective of a ceramic artist, into the nature of 'water' as observed within the China Clay industry."

There are four main areas to Jenny's work, the porcelain itself which contains over 50 per cent of processed super standard china clay from the Fal Valley pits; processed china clay which in slip form is incorporated with porcelain clay; china clay matrix which includes other indigenous material such as feldspar and quartz and natural colours which are mined in other parts of Europe by Imerys and provide a rich inspiring palette which Jenny works in with the china clay and porcelain.

This exhibition also features the many ceramicists that have proven so popular in recent years at the Lander Gallery including the unique work of Linda Styles. Her brightly coloured vessels and wall hangings are full of iridescent and shimmering surfaces.

Her pots are drawn and scratched into, with multiple layers of different glazes and fired several times.

The result is stunning and with her unconventional choice of shapes of her pots and vases, and creates an overall effect which is exciting and inspirational.

New makers in the show include Heather Hunt and her husband Gordon who is better known for his paintings.

Heather produces fun mugs, plates and plaques while Gordon with Heather makes unique one-off pieces based on fossils and ancient relics. Also on show are Jessica Ball's lustre glaze mugs and milk jugs.

There is raku ware by Eleanor Newell and Chris Hawkins. The range of work also includes practical pottery jugs and vases by Louise Thompson.

In addition the gallery has jewellery made from clay including porcelain brooches, necklaces and earrings by Sarah Perry as well as Julie Murdoch-George

Work by Stuart Thorn and Chris Hawkins.