A Shropshire artist will have her artwork displayed at one of the country’s most prestigious exhibitions.

Whixhall born and bred Ellie Cliftlands, 30, will have one of her works shown at one of the Royal Academy of Arts’ most prestigious events and has seen all her works sold out before the exhibition has even begun.

Printmaker Ellie – who is one of the country’s youngest wood engravers – has had her work ‘Snowshill Manor’ accepted by the Academy for their famous Summer Exhibition – beating thousands of other pieces of work.

(Image: Ellie Cliftlands)

“I’m so excited to have been accepted and can’t wait to see my work hanging in London,” said Ellie.

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Ellie, who works at her studio in Whixhall, was selected by a committee of leading British artists from 16,500 hopefuls.

Ellie, has lived in Shropshire all her life, studied at the Cambridge School of Art, and was lucky enough to discover the old art of wood engraving when she was at university.

(Image: Ellie Cliftlands)

The work is incredibly intricate and requires an phenomenal amount of skill and patience.

“It takes me an hour or so just to produce a centimetre of work,” added Ellie.

This is because the scale of her work is “incredibly small”.

She creates the prints by using tiny metal engraving tools with fantastic names like Spitsticker and Scorper to chip away at a glass-like block of wood and to make it even more complex she has to work in reverse and crate a mirror image – so that when it’s printed the image comes out the right way round.

Ellie said her art is “inspired by lovely Shropshire gardens, such as Attingham or Wollerton Old Hall”.

She has already created work that has done well in the market, with her art being acquired by collectors from around the world.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition will run from June 18 to August 18 at Burlington House in London.