Sixty-nine exhibitors with more than 240 pieces are taking part in this year’s Pfeiffer Wines Art Show, a free event open until January 26.

Paintings, photographs, collage and metalwork sculptures feature among the displays, created by artists from Albury-Wodonga, Wangaratta, Rutherglen, Corowa, Cobram, Young, Sydney and Gippsland.

Pfeiffer Wines sales and marketing manager Kylie Barton said the winery had held an art show for about eight years.

“It’s our opportunity to give back to the community of artists in our area,” she said. “We’re incredibly thrilled with the quality of the work and how many people wanted to participate.”

This year’s theme was through the window, a move away from previous wine-related topics.

“We just felt it was probably a little bit too restrictive for people so this is the first year where we’ve opened it up to a much broader theme,” Ms Barton said.

“It could have been outside of their window, a hospital window, a rear vision mirror, anything like that, people have embraced that theme.”

Wodonga photographer Mark Slater, along with his wife Wendy, submitted some landscapes, both local and further afield, into the show.

“We tend to go out looking, yes, we go to scenic places around this area or around Australia to try and capture great scenes and reproduce them the best we can,” he said. “It’s good when someone buys your photos, to think it’s good enough to hang on their walls at home.”

Slater said the winery was a nice rustic setting for an art show.

“They don’t take any commission and there’s no entry fee, so it’s a very generous offer that they provide to local artists and photographers,” he said.

Mount Beauty painter Shirley Hall said the event was “a fabulous little show” that was expanding every year.

“It gives people that are there an extra interest while they’re in there tasting their wines, they can have a look around,” she said.

“I was one of the last people to drop off paintings, so I could see most of what was already up and hanging and there’s some lovely work in there this year.

“I think they sell quite a few too, which is good.”