A touring exhibition of award-winning paintings and drawings by local school pupils began in Selby this week.

Works by 12 finalists in the Drax Power Limited Art In The Community competition are on show at the Morrisons store, on Market Cross, Selby until 21 February.

The budding artists range in age from 5-18 and now, together with thousands of customers, they have the chance to view their masterpieces in a ‘gallery’ created along the wall behind the store’s tills.

After Morrisons the exhibition will then move on to Howden Minster. The tour follows an award ceremony at Drax Power Station where the finalists and their schools were awarded prize money totalling more than £2,500.

Art In The Community is part of Drax’s community relations programme designed to encourage and develop art appreciation as part of the company’s support for education and to promote art learning within the National Curriculum.

For more information, please contact:

Melanie Wedgbury/Rachael Hudson
Drax Power 01757 618381

Lisa McGauley/Richard Harrison
Imagen PR 01943 468778

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Notes to Editors

1. Drax Power Limited is the owner of Drax Power Station, the largest, cleanest and most efficient coal fired power station in the UK. The output capacity from the station’s six generators is 4,000MW. At current output levels it supplies some 7% of the UK’s electricity needs.

2. The Morrisons store on Market Cross is open from 8.00am-8.00pm Monday-Saturday and 10.00am-4.00pm Sunday.

The full list of winners and runners up:

5 – 7 years

1st – Elle McKeon – Selby Community Primary
2nd – Tye Smith – Marshlands Primary
3rd – Chloe Smith – Snaith Primary

7 – 11 years

1st – Heather Cole – Camblesforth Primary
2nd – Eloise Wilburn – Pollington in Balne Primary
3rd – Aston Harrison – Whitley and Eggborough

11 – 14 years

1st – Megan Griffiths – Goole High School
2nd – Ben Pike – Brayton College
3rd – Niamh Henderson – Goole High School

14 – 18 years

1st – Emma Thompson – Brayton College
2nd – Beth Halkon – Goole High School
3rd – Wojciech Wojda – Brayton College