ICONIC images from French painter, sculptor and designer, Henri Matisse will be on show in Somerset at a major exhibition.

Matisse’s vibrant works are celebrated for their extraordinary richness and luminosity of colour and his spectacular paper cut-outs were his final triumph.

Matisse: Drawing with Scissors, a Hayward Touring exhibition from the Southbank Centre features 35 posthumous prints of the famous cut-outs that he produced in the last four years of his life, when confined to his bed.

It includes many of his iconic images, such as The Snail and the Blue Nudes.

Matisse continued creating highly original works into his eighties.

For his cut-outs he used paper handpainted with gouache, which he carved into with scissors: ‘the paper cut-out allows me to draw in the colour … ‘Instead of drawing the outline and putting the colour inside it…I draw straight into the colour’.

The colours he used were so strong that he was advised by his doctor to wear dark glasses.

And you will get a chance to see his work while they are at Contains Art, East Quay, in Watchet. The exhibition runs from May 31- June 25.

Admission is free and the art can be seen 11am – 4pm and daily during holidays.