The South Hams Arts Forum presents its sixth annual exhibition of the best in local contemporary art.

This year's show opens at Harbour House in Kingsbridge on July 8, under the banner of Contemporary Passions vi, and showcases the work of ten artists who specialise in painting, printmaking, sculpture, glass and jewellery.

The South Hams Arts Forum aims to support and encourage a wide appreciation of the arts, and this year also offers gallery-based workshops to Devon teachers and schoolchildren, under the guidance of local arts specialist teacher Caroline Mercer.

Sculpture is a strong feature of this year's exhibition, with Caroline Mercer's nautically inspired ceramic vessels, and works in wood by Sharon Windebank.

Sharon is inspired by both the physical and the emotional aspects of the human form, and chooses timber with an appropriately sinuous grain for her carvings. In contrast, she also constructs figures, taking the abstract sculptural qualities of wooden shipbuilding and architecture as a starting point.

Bronzes are particularly well represented in this summer's exhibition.

Jenny Wynne-Jones responds to the human form with a feeling of tranquility and spirituality with her female busts and figures of children, while Joanna Martins takes the symbolism and mythology of animals as her inspiration.

Joanna is well known for her cold cast bronzes of hares and other native animals, and she also develops inventive mixed media sculptures which draw on her extensive travels and research in Africa.

Inka Gabriel works with glass to produce tall, elegant lamps, often incorporating pebbles from the local shoreline.

Jeweller Livvy Wotton, too, uses shells, and fragments of wood from fallen trees, alongside silver and gold in her contemporary and unusual work.

Christine Pascoe shows a collection of delicate watercolours of Dartmoor and the local coastline, while Chris Dack looks a little further afield for her inspiration, with oil paintings inspired by pattern and colour in the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole, and the wild landscapes of Gozo.

Anita Reynolds, who has become increasingly well known for her dynamic paintings of moorland and coastline, turns her attention this year to printmaking.

With a strong connection to her paintings and to the landscape that inspires her, her newest works explore rock formations and ancient settlements with a greater degree of abstraction, working with the processes of intaglio and monoprint to explore surface texture.

Versatile artist Sally Fisher, too, explores texture and surface with a bold series of mixed media paintings full of energy, colour and light.

Contemporary Passions vi opens at Harbour House in Kingsbridge on Tuesday 8 July. Opening times are 10am - 5pm daily, until the close of the show on Sunday 20 July. Admission is free.