, writes Jo Roberts.

It’s a real family affair at the Fishslab Gallery, where a mum, dad and daughter join with three other artist friends for an ensemble exhibition.

Whether your taste is for ceramics, paintings, jewellery or thread wrapping, most artistic tastes are catered for in the Whitstable exhibition by potter Cherry Tewfik and her Canterbury-based posse.

The group includes Cherry’s husband Jonathan Barnes, a watercolour painter, daughter Esther Miles, who works in the medium of thread wrapping, and friends Judith Griffiths, an oil painter, Annie Lilford, a silversmith and jeweller, and Susan Nyirenda, who works in fused glass.

“The friendships go back years and we have worked together in different exhibitions before but it’s our first time at the Fishslab Gallery,” said Cherry.

Of her own pottery on show, she said: “I like to try all sorts of different techniques and I particularly like pattern.”

Cherry was inspired by periods spent in Malaysia among other exotic climes, where she picked up different pattern and glazing techniques.

Her vases pictured above are decorated with horse hair, a technique in which strands of the hair are singed onto the pots as soon as they are pulled out of the kiln at very high tempertaures.

Husband Jonathan, a former headteacher at St Peter’s Methodist School in Canterbury, started painting at his grandfather’s knee and has never stopped.

“I find it hugely relaxing and engaging,” said Jonathan, whose watercolour paintings in this exhibition focus on the Whitstable coastline or on Venice, where he recently went on holiday.

“I travel and keep a visual diary of wherever I am. It does, for me, better than words.

“Landscapes in Whitstable, or cloudscapes and seascapes: it’s enjoying the beauty of the natural environment.”

The group exhibition is at the Fishslab Gallery in Whitstable from Tuesday, February 10 until Tuesday, February 17. Visit www.fishslabgallery.co.uk