Artist Leslie Child's painting of York to feature in London exhibition

The work has been selected from a record number of entries to appear alongside paintings by some of Britain’s leading watercolour artists for the Royal Institute of Painters In Watercolours show at The Mall Galleries.

The institute holds an open submission exhibition in central London each year and this year more than 800 works were submitted, making Leslie’s achievement all the greater.

“Although I’m from Leeds, I’ve spent many hours in York, painting on the streets, and in fact produced a calendar in 2011 called Historic York in watercolour, which subsequently sold out in the city,” he says.

Further examples of Leslie’s work can be found online at artistsandillustrators.co.uk/watercolours and artsmalta.org under Leslie Child. Should you be going to the show at The Mall Galleries, in The Mall, look out for a small section that will be highlighting the plight of Britain’s woodlands in the special exhibition Trees & Landscape.

Against a background of ash dieback threatening 80 million ash trees and Government plans to sell off public woodlands, the institute’s watercolour artists have gone into the woods to capture the dappled light of sun shining through leaves before it is too late.