Northern Soul grew out of a long fascination with the personality of places Ian Scott Massie has come to know across the North and the stories connected with them.

The paintings and prints in this exhibition represent a journey of 45 years living in the North. Scott Massie describes the exhibition as “the log of a long, as yet unfinished, journey, and a love letter to the North of England. It’s about the places I’ve known and painted, and what part they play in this complex, careworn, mountainous, multifaceted, wave-tossed, warm-welcoming, windblown, freezing, friendly, tough spirited, tender hearted, rusty, rebellious, ruinous, green, golden, chilled-out, challenging, deep-rooted, dale-scattered, subtle, smoky, special land.”

The show is accompanied the work of Jane Fielder, Gillian Holt, Kath Bonson, Sarah Harris, Mike Moor, Simon Lewis and Seanna Doonan.