FLOATING off to sleep would be the name of the game when it comes to one of an array of new artworks at a Northumberland mansion.

Artist Carl von Weiler’s garden pond bed is at the National Trust’s Wallington property in Northumberland.

Carl is one of 18 artists drawn to Wallington on unfinished business.

The property is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Bell Scott, the 19th-Century poet, writer, artist and teacher, with a new art exhibition – entitled Unfinished Business.

At the invitation of Wallington’s mistress Pauline Trevelyan, William Bell Scott painted a series of works in the mansion’s central hall, depicting scenes from North East history.

But Scott’s wider plans for the hall, helped by other artists, remained unfinished.

Now, under the direction of Northumbria University artist-curator Chris Dorsett and the project management of Gillian Mason, visitor experience manager at Wallington, the new exhibition takes inspiration from Scott.

Among the first artists to sign up to the venture was Newcastle painter Paul Harvey and abstract sculptor Ashley Hipkin.