A PEMBROKESHIRE professional artist has been chosen from hundreds of entrants to compete in Sky Arts' Landscape Artist of the Year 2018.

Charlotte Ashleigh Halton Davies of Narberth will be seen on screen in the second heat of the programme, which airs on Tuesday October 23 at 8pm.

Twenty-eight-year-old Charlotte, a mum-of-two, gained a fine arts degree from the West Wales School of the Arts.

Her work is influenced by her deep appreciation of nature and home, and it began to sell when one of her final exam project pieces was spotted by a gallery while it was being framed.

She has featured in exhibitions at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff; Elysium, Swansea; Narberth Museum and the Golden Sheaf Gallery, Narberth and has also been artist-in-residence at Narberth's OrielQ.

In the forthcoming heat, Charlotte and fellow contestants will be challenged to create a piece of art depicting Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent.

If successful, she goes through to the semi-final at Felixstowe Docks, which airs on November 27, and the three chosen artists from there will then compete in the final in Greenwich Park, which will be shown on December 4.

This is the fourth series of the show, which has been the second-biggest series ever for Sky Arts.

Regular presenter Joan Bakewell returns, to be joined this year by actor and art-lover Stephen Mangam.

The judges are artist Tai Shan Schierenberg and independent curators Kate Bryan and Kathleen Soriano.

Almost 1,600 entries were received for the 2018 competition, and these were whittled down to 48 to compete in the six heats.

The contest winner will receive a prestigious commission from the Imperial War Museum to create an artwork to tie in with the centenary of the 2018.