ART lovers can go with the flow at a Plymouth gallery where Jenny Beavan's new exhibition demonstrates her fascination with water.

The ceramicist from Cornwall explores geological interaction in Water At Work at 45 Southside in the Barbican.

Jenny is an internationally known artist who works closely with the materials which are found near her home on Bodmin Moor.

"Water saturates, shifts, seeps, explores, exploits, distracts, destroys, manoeuvres, penetrates, mixes, grades, attacks, finds a way, a path, a passage, dislodges, surrounds, circulates, gravitates, yet can be drawn upwards to form clouds," she wrote in a diary kept during an artistic residency with china clay firm Imerys.

Jenny works the pieces in much the same way as water acts on minerals and rocks.

She makes cracks and cavities by adding combustible and non-combustible material, often intending to destabilise and create change.

Then fluxing agents such as feldspar and glass are used for contrast and effect and to stabilise the structure.

Jenny works mainly in porcelains and local china clay, chosen for their ability to create effects such as enhanced colour.

Her aim is to portray the 'nature' of porcelain and water as they defy unnatural pressures to be tamed.

Water At Work runs from Sunday, March 14, to Saturday, April 17. The gallery is open 10am to 5.30pm daily (01752 224974, www.45southside.co.uk).