A north Pembrokeshire artist is in the running for a £15,000 national art prize, due to be awarded next Monday.

Cherry Pickles' landscape of the A487 has been picked from 1,100 entries to make it to the final 80 shortlisted for this year's prestigious Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize.

The prize for the UK's leading competition for contemporary British representational and figurative painting and drawing will be awarded on March 6. Cherry's work will then be on exhibition at London's Mall Galleries between March 6 and 18.

The eventual winners announced on March 6 at an evening event at the Mall Galleries. The prize offers total prize money of £30,000, including a first prize of £15,000 and a gold medal, second prize of £4,000 alongside the newly introduced People's Prize worth £2,000.

Cherry is based in Trefin and teaches at the Royal Drawing School in London. She has entered the competition before and is eagerly awaiting Monday's awards event.

"They invite everyone who has entered to the ceremony," she said. "It's a lively gathering, I'm looking forward to it," she said.

Cherry's shortlisted oil on canvas painting is of the A487.

"I like painting landscapes from my car with a rear view mirror because you get the view from the front and the back and it's the way most people experience the views in Pembrokeshire. It gives the sense that you can move," she said.

"The A487 is a road I use all the time. The road has a lot of meaning for me. Seeing the road in front and behind it is a bit like life."