Artists who found each other online stage a joint exhibition in Yorkshire

Artists Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Sarah Raphael-Balme first came across each other’s work on Instagram 18 months ago – and they have now organised the showcase of their art in York.

Newport-born Mr Hicks-Jenkins had worked for many years as a choreographer and theatre director before concentrating full-time on painting. His most recent projects have seen him collaborating with The Penfold Press, a print studio that opened in 2005, and St Jude’s upholstery and wallpaper designers as well as Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop in Covent Garden.

York-based Ms Raphael-Balme trained at Chelsea College of Art, but it is her most recent output which has rapidly seen her gain a new international following.

The exhibition is being staged at the Lotte Inch Gallery in the North Yorkshire city and will run until June 17.

The gallery was first launched in York with a series of pop-up locations before being established in its permanent base situated in Bootham just outside the city’s medieval walls.