Five Versions of the Beautiful World

Five Versions of the Beautiful World opens at Gallery 4, Salisbury Library on 3 November, bringing together five artists each with their own take on the world around us. It's a group show that lets you see how differently five people can look at the same thing, and it runs through to 28 November, closed on Sundays.

There's a fair bit of variety to work through. Anna Shuttlewood is a local children's book author and illustrator born in a sunny Eastern European city; she grew up backstage at her family's puppet theatre and makes up stories about the puppets and sets that differ from the plays' plots, a personal history she carries into her whimsical illustrations and naïve characters. Diliana Nikolova works in satirical painting, with existence and faith as her subject and a witty, original style that plays on the paradoxical union of the sad and the funny. Chris Lock is largely self-taught and draws from the changing moods and colours of the landscape through the seasons. Ija Broka is an artist and writer who pairs art and words to share what she notices between her inner path and the outer world, showing a collection of bright, bold pieces. And Zac Newham brings a World Map made of thousands of individual wood slices, alongside Wood & Roll, a giant interactive marble run placed in the middle of the gallery.

Because it's in the library, it's easy to drop into on a day you're already in town. The gallery is upstairs at Gallery 4, Salisbury Library, Market Place, SP1 1TH. It's open 10:00 to 17:00, and entry is free.