A TALENTED group of photographers celebrate water in all its forms in an Exhibition aptly titled Inspired by Water - currently on show at Crediton Library until the end of September.

Cyril Chudley's dazzling Reflections fill one with wonder. A misty, surreal long lost building quivers with loneliness whilst a salty throw of water sticks imprisoned on the hull of a boat, creating a shimmering unforgettable image.

Norman Hedge's welcome Weekend Visitors provided him with exquisite shots of icicles - feathery "fir trees" near an "open doorway"; sharp "fingers" piercing a sea of blue and slivers of "white cream" highlighted against an expanse of midnight blue.

Bob Wilkes' rainbow coloured water drops hanging suspended in mid-air vie for attention with a lacy, spider web - veil-like in its beauty. A blue glass vase and stoppered jar gaze out onto a window reflection of fiery landscape, trees and house silhouetted against the sky.

Gold sunrays blaze out to a carpet of "steel" in Terry Brown's faceted pictures of water whilst regality surrounds panels of frosted glass lending an ecclesiastical air.

Stella Beavan's pastel coloured ice ferns impress shining with a psychedelic intensity.

Nature at its most rampant spills forth in Keith Worters' Wild Water photographs. The seething, foaming River Yeo, near Eggesford, tears maniacally under a secure bridge re-appearing again to trouble orange and red tinged branches.

A trickle of blue-ribboned White Lady Fall, Lydford Gorge, threads through leaves and trees contrasting dramatically with an eruption of water edged with peppermint green grasses.

Ken Saunders' In A Dartmoor Stream images draw the viewer into a fairytale dream-like world of billowing curtains of light gently caressing; swirls of ice catching against a river of blue and skeins of white sliding sensuously over burnt butterscotch rocks.

Engulf yourself in the warmth of this Exhibition and feel your fingertips tingle.!

Jane Partridge