WEST Dorset residents can see her work in Lyme Regis but now much wider audience can see wildlife artist Emma Bowring's work.

She has had four paintings accepted to show in the David Shepherd Week of Wildlife Art at the Mall Galleries in London.

The exhibition will run from Wednesday June 28 to Sunday July 2.

The exhibition will feature several different events, including the Wildlife Artist of the Year which is celebrating its 10th anniversary and ‘The Bigger Picture’ which is an exhibition following the work of wildlife rangers in Zambia through art, photography and film.

Emma said: "I have been invited to hang in the North Gallery at the Mall as part of the DSWF collection, and will have four original oil paintings on display.

"Five per cent from all of the sales goes to the conservation work that the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation do throughout Africa and Asia."

Emma, who has featured in the News before when she helped Devon Wildlife Trust raise money to help keep the beaver population on the River Otter, said she's been lucky to be able to combine her favourite things - art and wildlife.

She said: "Art was always my favourite subject at school, and the first thing on my birthday or Christmas list was normally drawing books, pens and paints.

"My other passion as a young girl was animals.

"I joined every animal welfare group I could, and dreamed of one day travelling the world saving animals... unfortunately things don't always work out the way you dreamed them.

"So in recent years when I had the opportunity to return to art, the obvious choice of subject for me was wildlife and when this gave me the chance to fulfil a little of my childhood dream of helping animals, through donations of my work to animal charities, it inspired me to turn what started as just a hobby, in to something more."

Emma has a gallery and studio in Broad Street, Lyme Regis.