A STUNNING array of works by over 50 professional artists went on display at the annual Angus Summer Salon in Forfar over the weekend.

The salon comprises 100 pieces encompassing a diversity of styles and media including landscapes, life drawing and abstract works portrayed in mixed media, oils, printmaking and sculpting.

The event was opened at a special preview reception, when Jennifer Mackie was revealed as this year’s first prize winner for her atmospheric study, Light Through the Window at Westmuir.

Robert Thomson’s watercolour of Forfar’s Littlecauseway was placed second, with Cadam Woods before the Fell, by James Dewar, and Anne Crockatt’s Somewhere on the Horizon completing the main prize line-up.

Five pieces were highly commended this year—Midnight by Joanne Campbell, Kyle Hamilton’s Within, Parting Day by James R. Barclay, Light Fall by James Dunbar and Stephen Paterson’s bronze resin of William Topaz McGonagall.

Angus Council representatives were joined by last year’s winners Barbara Robertson and Robert McGilvray on the 2006 judging panel and the group faced a difficult task.

The salon runs until July 1.