CHAPPEL Galleries has lined-up another series of top-flight exhibitions with some of the nation’s best artists.

The new season of shows started this month with a joint exhibition by two married couples, Sargy and Frances Mann, and Graham and Julie Giles.

Their association started at the Camberwell School of Art where Frances and Julie were students, and Sargy and Graham were teachers.

Amazingly Sargy still paints, despite being completely blind, and as well as his oil pastels there are landscapes by Frances, oils by Julie and water-inspired paintings by Graham.The show runs until September 6.

A solo exhibition by William Bowyer will take over the gallery space from September 12.

Visitors to the Royal Academy summer exhibitions in recent times will be familiar with his evocative oil paintings of the Thames near his home in Chiswick, and the Blyth estuary, near Southwold, Suffolk, which is another popular location for the artist.

His collection of oils and watercolours closes on October 11.

From October 17 to November 8 it is the turn of Suffolk-born Tessa Newcomb and Joan Elliot Bates.

Joan has visited the county many times from her London home and is well-known in the art world for her depictions of the Suffolk coast, while Tessa is following in the footsteps of her artist mother, Mary, with her own scenes of everyday life.

Rounding off the year, there will be another chance for gallery owner, Wladyslaw Mirecki, to show how good an artist he is.

Wladyslaw, who runs the gallery with wife Edna, will be showing a selection of his watercolours depicting Essex scenery.

A self-taught painter, the Chelmsford-born artist has painted all his life and strangely, given the quality of his work, his qualifications are in science, not art.

On My Doorstep is on from November 14 to December 6.

Chappel Galleries in in Colchester Road, Chappel. For more information see www.chappel galleries.co.uk.