Skewered moles, mutilated heads and Keighley families' washing are among images on show at an art gallery.

Jane Fielder is exhibiting 100 of her pictures for the next six weeks at Keighley College's Arts Factory.

She is bringing together four separate sets of paintings, photographs and textile pieces completed over the past six years.

They include some of her popular "Janescapes" featuring quirky wide-angle scenes from her home town of Bingley.

There are also poster-sized photographs capturing the "bizarre things that often go unnoticed", including images of Manningham Mills.

There are watercolours of local towns including one of Jane's favourites, "Happy Washing Keighley".

She said: "Keighley is so often talked badly about, but to me it is quite beautiful.

"I love the rows of terraces, the billowing washing lines and the gas works, all of which have featured in my work."

The exhibition -- A Race Against Time -- is named after a series of abstract paintings where Jane used acrylic ink in a short time period.

Jane said: "I will also be showing a large series of heads that came about after I had been teaching severely-autistic children.

"Most could barely speak. I longed to look inside their beautiful heads to know what was going on.

"There are also photos of moles with their noses skewered by barbed wire in Scotland, and bizarre cats just before and after the tremor in Nottinghamshire."

Jane was born in Kent in 1949, and for a number of years taught arts and crafts to people with physical disabilities.

She is now a full-time artist and was an original member of the Aire Valley Arts contemporary artists' group.

Jane is finding herself increasingly in demand as an artist, after staging eight solo exhibitions in three years and taking part in 18 other exhibitions across the north.

She said this month's exhibition at the Arts Factory was her biggest to date.

She said: "Not many galleries can accommodate my large-scale works and I feel lucky to be able to use such a wonderful space.

"Much of my work explores the idea of life being a race, trying to fit in a million things at once and always running out of time."

A Race Against Time runs from today until February 21, at the Arts Factory, in Keighley College's Harold Town annexe.

Access to the gallery is from Elia Street, off Bradford Road, opposite Victoria Park. It is open weekdays. Telephone 01535 618542 for more details