WINCHESTER-based artist, Peter Lloyd, has teamed up with Southampton illustrator, Jonny Hannah, to create Strange Folk – a new art exhibition at Solent Showcase.

It incorporates the eccentric and the exotic and will showcase a series of artwork by Peter based on masked wrestlers in Mexico.

Peter, who is the head of art and design at Solent University, has created pieces for celebrities such as David Bowie and Vic Reeves.

He said: “The participants are masked and this personal anonymity provides a blank canvas upon which to create their own characters, using elaborate costumes and demonstrative actions.”

Jonny Hannah, course leader for illustration at Solent University, is behind Dark Town – a fictional place with characters from the jazz industry, boxers, detectives, clowns, poets, Punch and Judy, sailors and rocket men.

For Strange Folk, he will be making a number of new prints and paintings cut out on board and an assortment of customized junk, bespoke for the Arcane Arcade – a shop that sells the unusual and possibly pointless.

He said: “From Captain Cat’s Cat, to defaced guitars, this unusual shop will hopefully please all who enter. I hope that Strange Folk will act as an antidote, yet coexist alongside, to the fact that every modern high street looks the same.”

Strange Folk will run Friday, October 17, until Saturday, November 22, and is open to the public Monday to Friday: 11am- 6pm; Saturday: 11am-5pm.

For more information visit solent.ac.uk/showcase/showcase-home.aspx