PRINTING blocks created from wood have helped an East Lothian artist have two pieces of work featured in the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition.

Jonathan Gibbs’ wood engravings Fluvius and Confluence were part of the exhibition in London.

Both pieces of art depict landscape, birds, fish and the elements.

The artist, from Humbie, uses lemonwood, maple, box, whitebeam and holly.

For Confluence, the holly comes from a tree at Keith Marischal, Humbie.

He uses boxwood from the same garden to make small printing blocks.

The artist, who recently judged the Gifford Art Club’s annual exhibition, regularly shows at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh and has exhibited with other artists at Amisfield Walled Garden, on the outskirts of Haddington.

Before retirement from full-time teaching, Mr Gibbs was a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where he returns occasionally to teach Art, Print+Nature to postgraduate students.