THE first joint exhibition of watercolour paintings, prints and etchings by Wensleydale artist Winifred Hodge, and her daughter Jill, starts tomorrow at the dales countryside museum in Hawes.

Winifred Hodge studied watercolour painting with Archie Sutter Watt and printmaking at Carlisle college of art. She has a special interest in papermaking, often using her own paper for her collages.

Dales landscapes and flowers, the main subjects of her pictures, surround the home she shares with her husband, Mr Len Karn, in Preston-under-Scar. Their garden displays her love of colour and form: a picture in itself.

Her daughter, Jill, graduated in fine art printmaking last year from Loughborough university and works at the Edinburgh Print Workshop. She uses both traditional methods and the new non-toxic ways of etching. Her prints are usually colourful and not the black and white usually expected in printmaking.

The Hawes exhibition will be her third major event this year. She had good success at the Yorkshire printmakers' exhibition in York which led to her appointment as a resident artist at the Adze gallery, York, as well as at the Buchanham gallery in Southwold. She is selling from a Princes Street gallery during the Edinburgh festival.

Though Winifred and Jill are 30 years apart, they find themselves inspired by the same themes: the dales, the moors and the wild places of the Scottish Islands.

Jill's sister, Kirsty, a staff nurse in Newcastle, will support them at the Hawes exhibition. And brother Duncan - famous in the world of rugby as the Scotland fly-half who robbed England of the Grand Slam back in March - hopes to visit if his team fixtures permit.

The exhibition, entitled Common Senses, runs until September 17 and is open from 10am to 5pm.