A RYEDALE painter has had her work selected from nearly 2,000 entries to appear in a London exhibition.

The work by Fiona Scott, a portrait painter from Sproxton near Helmsley, will appear alongside paintings by some of Britain’s leading portrait artists at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual open submission exhibition.

The portrait which will be exhibited is of Fiona’s mother, Betty Scott, and is titled Coffee With Mum.

The exhibition is a feature of the social calendar, and is graced by “portraits of royalty, celebrities, academics, mothers, daughters, fathers and sons”.

This year about half of the work will be by eminent members of the Society and half by emerging artists selected through the open submission. With some 200 portraits on show, this is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of recent portraits in the country.

This year’s exhibition will be on display at Mall Galleries, in London, from May 4 to May 19.

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters also have many prizes and awards available to exhibitors, including the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the £3,000 de Laszlo Foundation Award.