Landscape painter Kane Cunningham and musician Jim Dickinson have created a music and video installation which will be shown at Sledmere House, near Driffield, from July 20-30.

Mr Cunningham, who is head of fine art at Yorkshire Coast College's Westwood campus, said: "I had known Jim for a while and often chatted about painting and the influence of music on artists and particularly the creative relationship between artists and musicians.

It seemed a natural development when the idea was suggested that we work together." Mr Dickinson filmed him painting and observed his approach to working outdoors.

Mr Cunningham said: "The idea was to paint while Jim annotated musically the rhythms of my movements, which were set within the context and rhythms of nature, such as a flowing river or a breeze through the trees."

Mr Dickinson, whose musical career has included a number one album, hit singles and performances at the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury, said: "My recent work concerns transferring the emotional and physical experience of landscape to musical composition. While studying Kane painting outdoors I realised two things: firstly I must break out of my studio and create within the landscape itself, and secondly I saw within the brush marks of Kane's work a language of graphical notation that would enable me to transfer the rhythms of the landscape to my music.

"Expect to see and hear a unique perspective on Sledmere and its surrounding landscape." Mr Cunningham has been painting at Sledmere House throughout the year and Mr Dickinson had access to the estate with the permission of Sir Tatton Sykes.

Mr Cunningham said: "Sir Tatton would often drive past Jim and me and observe with some interest our collaboration, which must have looked quite surreal. I was painting large watercolours while Jim was playing the piano."