Artist Rob Rez has been working with local arts promotion charity Northern Roots over the past four years, and during that time he’s produced a number of portraits of the region’s rising music stars.

Local R&B/rap artist Kay Greyson is noted for her vibrant output and that’s something Rob Rez has captured in this colourful slice of pop art. And Greyson is just one of the exciting movers and groovers on the local scene that Rez has captured in his work. Other pieces show rapper Kema Kay as well as the founders of the Voices of Virtue Gospel Choir Mathapelo Imarhiagbe and Chinyere Igun. Rez has also painted the likes of Sting (who proclaimed his work “beautiful”) and Martin Luther King (with emphasis on King’s connection with Newcastle).

Northern Roots has worked with hundreds of young creatives, and further details of their work can be gleaned from: northern-roots.org.uk Rob Rez, until 30 June, Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle, gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk