A LLANBEDROG woman has scooped a top art prize at this year’s Urdd Eisteddfod.

Lea Sautin, originally from Llanbedrog, is the winner of the Art Scholarship at this year’s eisteddfod in Flintshire.

The scholarship is worth £2,000 and is awarded to the most promising individual aged between 18 and 25 years old.

Lea graduated from the painting and print making department at Glasgow School of Art in June 2015 and, after four years of studying in Scotland and a period working in a contemporary art museum in France, she is now back home in Wales.

Lea added: “Folklore in Wales is the core inspiration to my work focusing on its continuing evolvement over time. The Mabinogi and other folklore were told for centuries before being recorded and deciphered through adaptations and illustrations. I was brought up speaking three languages and am extremely interested in the development and contortion from one language or medium to the other.”

In 2016, Lea won the 2015 Euan Stewart memorial award at the Glasgow School of Art which is awarded for excellence in the printing department. She has already exhibited her work in London, Glasgow, Paris, Caernarfon, Yorkshire and Cardiff.

The scholarship judges this year were Gwenno Jones, Gareth Owen and Anwen Bumby. Gwenno said: “The work was truly thrilling with the creation process inspired by old, stories and how they gradually evolve over the years as they are narrated. It was obvious that she had progressed quite far in her training in comparison to the other competitors, knowing exactly the planned direction of the work.

Her work is ready to be exhibited to the world and she is certainly ready to put her own stamp on the arts world.

The prize of £2,000 is donated by Dr Dewi Davies and family.

Lea added: “It is a great privilege to be awarded the scholarship which will help me in a number of ways. I will be investing in a new SLR camera of professional standard which will allow me to experiment with lenses, focus and light, to create photos of a truly professional standard and to create bigger projects.”