FOLLOWING the success of two 'pop-up' art shows in Red Lion Yard, the windows of an empty shop are once again playing host to some contemporary artwork.

Painter and musician Phil Bird is displaying several artworks in the window of the former Honey Bea shop. Since the shop was vacated, it has been used to house art until it is once again rented by a business.

Among those being displayed are large oil canvases from his 'Leviathan' series of paintings, a series of mixed media works, oil paintings painted during his time living in Cyprus, and four recently painted oil paintings in Okehampton as part of an ongoing series called 'Imaginary Constellations'.

Phil has exhibited paintings internationally over several decades, and some of his paintings are in national collections across Britain.

He has also been involved in arts in education, community and cultural initiatives in the UK.

He said: 'The canvases, painted in the 1990s, came about as a result of spending two years drawing and painting the majestic trunk, branch and root forms of mature storm felled beech trees in English woodlands.

'They seemed to be in their fallen state to be like the tragic bodies of beached whales on some abandoned shore, hence the Leviathan title to the series.'