Visitors to this year's Leisure Painter and The Artist Open Art Exhibitions at Patchings Art Centre and PaintersOnline visitors were invited to vote for their favourites from among the exhibited and highly commended art works to win the People's Choice Awards 2018.

In The Artist category you selected Colin, oil on canvas, by Rebecca Ritchie.

Rebecca wins a subscription to The Artist worth £150.

For Leisure Painter, Meike Zane wins £150 worth of Search Press books for her graphite drawing, Unfinished VI

You can see all of the exhibited and highly-commended works online by clicking here.

Look out for details of our 2019 Open Art Competition in the January issues of the magazines, out on Friday November 30.