MOORLAND and stream feature atmospherically in the paintings of two talented Devon artists, Li Xiao Bai and Robert Jennings, on show in an exhibition starting tomorrow (Friday) at Big Wide Bay, the contemporary fine art gallery in Market Street, Tavistock.

Li Xiao Bai, 45, who moved to Plymouth from Nanjing, China, ten years ago now teaches art at Tavistock College.

He has 16 eye-catching works on show. Dartmoor scenes and the waterways around Newton Ferrers feature in this Easter exhibition, which continues until Saturday, April 26.

The medium Xiao Bai adopts is quite individual, being a blend of Western style and Chinese brush painting techniques. Many of the pieces are watercolour and ink on rice paper. Other exhibits are traditional oil-on-canvas paintings.

Xiao Bai, 45, formerly a university lecturer in China, began adult life as an artist in the People?s Liberation Army. He brought his talent to Plymouth in 1991, and has made his mark in the West with portraits and landscape paintings that have sold throughout the UK and on the Continent.

Robert Jennings, 73, is showing ten gouache paintings of Westcountry rivers. The subject has been an on-going project for this former designer in advertising, who retired in the mid-90s, has lived in Mid Devon since 1970 and has painted for more than 50 years.

In depicting a small section of a river, he aims to capture its essential character.

The artists and Big Wide Bay are donating ten per cent of the selling prices of the 24 paintings in this exhibition to The Chestnut Appeal, raising funds for a specialist prostate cancer unit at Derriford, and to the Westcountry Rivers Trust, whose specific projects improve South West rivers and their wildlife habitat.

Big Wide Bay is open 9.30am-5.30pm Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am-4.30pm Saturday and 9.30am-1.30pm on Easter Monday.