A cool seascape is bringing down the temperature in Frensham's Red Cube Gallery, the village’s community space in a converted red telephone box.

The work has been created in acrylic on calico. Artist Tessa Christie said: "Years ago a visit to Portsmouth reminded me of everything I love about the sea.

“In this picture I have tried to make a pattern that is all about the glitter of sailing ships, and their intimacy of ropes and spars."

Tessa Christie studied art in Farnham and at the Slade, and worked as a tutor at both the Slade and the Farnham School of Art in the 1960s and 1970s.

She said: “My paintings are about ourselves, our effect on the landscape and the waste we leave behind.”