ICONIC pottery designer Clarice Cliff has provided the inspiration for an arts exhibition this weekend.

Community Activity and Creativity in Earl Sterndale Artists (ACES) will be showing off their Clarice Cliff quilt at the popular Derbyshire Open Arts Exhibition.

The “Recollections” exhibition will showcase a variety of media, such as wool work, felting, stitching, patchwork, ceramics, wood-turning, collage and paintings.

This year, the ACES group, welcomes three guest artists from as far afield as Sheffield, adding further skills and talents to the show in the village church.

An art café boasting home made fare will be open from 11am to 5pm each day of the exhibition. Other attractions include live accordion music, peg loom demonstrations and flower arrangements.

In the vicinity, there will be two other artist venues to visit, Tony Beresford’s Dragonback Studio in Glutton Bridge, and Sue Blatherwick’s restored old Art Barn in Oakenclough Hall, near Longnor.

The ACES Exhibition is at St Michael’s and All Angels’ Church in Earl Sterndale on Saturday and Monday.