An artist is celebrating after being awarded a bursary for her work.

Chelsea Atkinson has been battling anxiety for the past two years and said it means "so much to her" that her work has been noticed.

The Keswick Society of Art chose the 18-year-old as the recipient of this year's annual bursary award.

Chelsea, who lives at St Bees, recently completed A-levels at Keswick School and is hoping to study product design engineering at Glasgow University in September.

"To have been awarded this bursary means so much to me," she said. "It made me feel like all my work was for something.

"I have been battling anxiety over the past two years and in my art I became a perfectionist and struggled to love my work, or didn't think it was good enough.

"So for someone outside of school to say they loved my work means so much to me."

Sally Bohling, of the society, said: "The standard of art at Keswick School is always consistently high and the range of work on display by both GCSE and A Level students was quite inspiring. However, it was Chelsea's body of work, backed by her sketchbooks, which caught the eye of the society's representative."

The artwork the former Lamplugh School pupil submitted for her A-levels was two projects she'd worked on over the past year – sport and astronomy.

The bursary will be presented to Chelsea by the society's chairman, Ted McArdle, next month.

Some of Chelsea's work has been chosen to illustrate the posters for the society's autumn exhibition, held at the Congregational Church Hall in Lake Road from Friday, September 9 to Tuesday, 19. It is open every day, apart from Sundays, between 10am and 6pm.