Two young artists, Ben Chaple-Perrie and Alex Fox-Robinson, are busy preparing for their exhibition at the Pembroke Dock Library in December.

The Art Duo exhibition will start on Monday, December 3.

Ben and Alex have been friends since attending Pembroke School's autism centre.

Ben is 23 and lives in Pembroke. He sat his art GCSE at Pembroke School. He attended the autism centre before going to Pembrokeshire College to continue his art studies.

He has had several previous exhibitions.

Alex, 16, meanwhile is in sixth form at Pembroke School studing A-Levels in art, history and English.

He has been drawing from the day he could hold a pencil and still is every day. As Alex had a great interest in animals and looked at animal books even before he held a pen, he practised drawing movements, gestures and intricate details of animals from an early age.

When he was around seven, he noticed that telegraph poles further away looked small and those close by were much larger! And one day he expressed the wish for someone to teach him how to draw. That is when he joined an art club in Newport for a while. He also painted watercolour pastels with an artist from Solva on a weekly basis for about a year when he was 10.

Alex went to Nant-y-Cwm Steiner School in Llanycefn, where all subjects are taught through an art medium; he learned about geography, history, the three Rs etc through storytelling, painting, modelling, reciting and drama, to name a few.

He says about drawing: "What I like best is seeing the result. With every drawing I have done, I can see what I should do better in the next one, which keeps me going all the time. Talking to people gives me ideas and seeing other people's sketches and paintings inspires me to try something new also."

Manga Art and Venetian masks inspired his work and more recently Gerald Scarfe's political cartoons motivate him.

When he was five, he exhibited some of his work at the Fishguard library in August-September 2001, where he sold his first painting. He recently exhibited 34 paintings and drawings at the gallery of the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven. Four punters bought seven works of his.

Alex has also been working on an animation film, 'If You Listened to Me'.