Pinner husband and wife artists Brian and Eva Cowan are holding a joint exhibition of their respective paintings and sculptures at the West House Gallery in Pinner’s Memorial Park next week to showcase their separate but complementary artwork.

“We’ve been looking to do something together for some time,” says Brian, 70, “we wanted to show off a bit! But it’s difficult to get hold of the right type of gallery that can accommodate my work and Eva’s steel sculptures. Then West House opened in 2010, and they were looking for our kind of exhibition so it was a nice combination.”

Visitors will be able to view around 30 of Brian’s oils, acrylics and pastels of life drawings, landscapes, botanic art and sporting activities and more than 10 of Eva’s mixed steel, copper, brass sculptures of animals, body parts and seascapes.

While their work is conceived and produced separately, “we do bounce off each other,” says Brian, “and we work in a very complementary way – my work is quite strong and bold and Eva’s is quite modern, on the verge of abstract.”

Brian has been a professional artist all his life, having started out in TV and advertising after art school and moving into painting for pleasure around 15 years ago, while Austrian Eva, 60, found her calling after a career in TV and film as Eva Reuber-Staier - she starred in the Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy - and winning Miss World in 1969. “She doesn’t look like a welder,” laughs Brian, “but she’s doing what she loves most.”

Cowan Art is at West House Gallery, Memorial Park, West End Lane, Pinner on Thursday, May 10 from 2pm to 8pm, on Friday 11, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 from 10am to 8pm, and on Monday, May 14 from 10am to 3pm. Details: 020 8866 6231, www.westhousepinner.com