AMATEUR artist Andrea Cryer from Bradford on Avon has been chosen from hundreds to compete in this year’s Landscape Artist of the Year competition.

She will compete against eight artists and alongside a further 50 wildcar’ artists in the third heat of this year’s series, produced by award-winning production company Storyvault Films.

Ms Cryer, who is a part-time solicitor, has a unique approach to her art.

She first draws onto cotton mix fabric with a pencil and then traces the outline on a sewing machine using a fine black thread.

She then mixes embroidery work with dyes and paints and transfers them to a fabric by ironing them on. When she is happy she dries the artwork with a hairdryer to seal the colour and finishes off with a paintbrush.

Ms Cryer appears in the third heat, which goes out on Sky Arts at 8pm on Tuesday, October 30.

The latest series is hosted by new co-presenter, actor and art-lover Stephen Mangan alongside Joan Bakewell.

Those taking part are challenged to create a piece of art depicting Loch Fyne. If successful, Ms Cryer will go through to the semi-final at Felixstowe Docks airing on November 27.

The three chosen artists from there will then compete in the final in Greenwich Park which airs on December 4.

This is the fourth series of the show, which is produced by London and Glasgow-based Storyvault Films.

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

The show not only highlights the tremendous artistic talent across the country but also how the beautiful British countryside has inspired past and present generations of artists.

Almost 1,600 entries were received for the 2018 competition, giving the judges the difficult task of whittling them down to 48 artists to compete in the six heats.

Three of the heats are National Trust locations: Fountain’s Abbey and Studley Royal in Yorkshire; Viking Bay, Broadstairs and Inveraray Castle in Scotland.

Each heat was open to a further 50 ‘wildcard’ artists who were invited to compete for a potential place in the semi-final.

The winner of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2018 will receive a life-changing opportunity for any artist, a prestigious commission from the Imperial War Museum to create an artwork to tie in with the centenary of the 1918 armistice.

He or she will travel along with an IWM historian to Macedonia, to visit one of the most unchanged battlefields of the campaign, the site of a significant defeat where British and Irish soldiers lost their lives.

The finished work will be unveiled at the museum’s London HQ and enter the IWM’s collection to be put on display in the museum.

Storyvault Films are producing a further programme charting the winning artist’s journey to Macedonia and the creation of the IWM commissioned work, due to be aired after the final programme.