Year after year the Pilgrims Way Artists Annual Summer Exhibition has been attracting more artists and visitors.

The 18th show, supported by Maidstone’s Lark Insurance, will showcase Peter Robson as its featured artist alongside 30 other Kent artists, potters and sculptors who will display around 350 works.

Peter is largely self-taught and since retirement has travelled the world to concentrate on his watercolours. He is a 2014 Elizabeth Howard Award winner and has exhibited in the Mall Galleries, in London.

His paintings have also been shown in the Royal Academy Science Museum, Henley Regatta and at Bristol and Battersea art fairs.

Work by student artist Lucie Irwin-Smith will also be featured.

The exhibition runs from Friday, May 15 to Monday, May 25 and will be held in the 14th century Grade I listed Tithe Barn in Lenham and opens from 10am to 6pm.

On Friday, May 22 to Sunday, May 24 there will members’ craft stalls in the adjoining barn and art demonstrations from 6pm to 9pm.

A preview night will feature curator Dr Ian Collins who will give a talk on artist John Craxton: The Poetic Eye, which ties in with the John Craxton exhibition at the Dorset County Museum, in Dorchester, which runs until September 19.

Valerie Woollven, president of Pilgrims Way Artists, said: “It is a pleasure to host the exhibition in the historic barn. Year on year, it just gets better.”