BIGGER is often better, but when you're thinking of buying original art, it's also very expensive.

So leave the large canvases to the museums and pick up an exquisite minature at the new exhibition at the Martin Tinney Galley.

Every painting in the show is 10in square - or smaller. And there are more than forty artists represented, including John Petts, Peter Prendergast, Mary Griffiths, Josef Hermann and Claudia Williams.

There are star names like Harry Holland, (whose work is pictured) and a host of home-grown artists including Mary Lloyd Jones.

She said: "The central theme in my work is the land and grows from my roots in the mountains of mid Wales.

"The fact that the Cymru were the first inhabitants of Britain and have existed here since prehistoric times interests me, as does the knowledge that some of the oldest rocks in the world are in Wales."

There's also work by Kevin Sinnott, born in Sarn in 1947, who trained at the Royal College of Art before moving back to Wales just eight years ago.

His work has shown worldwide and is represented in major museums across the globe, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

And though born in Melbourne, Australia, 50 years ago, Shani Rhys James has made her adopted Wales very much her own.

She moved to London as a child and received her artistic education at St Martin's School of Art.

Her relocation to Wales followed soon after in 1984. The artist said: "When I moved to Wales, the renovation of my own house and relative isolation was a further stimulus to my work."

Others in the show include Gwilym Pritchard, Mike Briscoe, James Donovan, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Mark Samuel, Dewi Tudur, and Prudence Walters. Small II runs from Wednesday until April 26. The gallery is open from 10am to 6pm Monday to Friday and from 10am to 5pm on Saturday.