TWO Herefordshire artists have successfully submitted work for this year's Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

Anthony Priddle, who trained as an architect, has learned too that his submission, a painting entitled Isleworth at Dusk, has already sold.

After graduation, Anthony became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a registered architect, practising in London, Boston USA and Bristol, before founding a successful architectural practice in Gloucestershire.

His interest in art, which was predominant in his pre-university days, lay semi-dormant for many years, when his artistic expression was principally directed to his architecture. In recent years he revitalised the desire to make art and periodically attended summer schools at the Slade School of Art. He went on to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Central St Martins (Byam Shaw) in London.

His work is now motivated by light, both temporal and spiritual.

Printmaker Julian Meredith, meanwhile, had two pieces accepted - one a three-metre work entitled Itchen River System hangs in the ceiling and was made with students from Winchester College, and the other, Rook, is a woodcut.

"In my wood cuts, I use fish, birds, animals and insects," says Julian. "Their relationship to their environment and to us is my main subject matter. I also work on the landscape constructing whales and fish images hundreds of feet long, some permanent and some drawn in sand and snow."

The Summer Exhibition runs at the Royal Academy until August 16.