Congratulations to Oathall Community College GCSE Art student and Head Boy John Moore whose artwork was selected to be exhibited at The Mall Galleries in London recently.

John’s piece was a portrait of fellow student Jack Davidian-Judd. The likeness was created by the meticulous weaving of threads back and forth across a grid of nails to reproduce the image.

This is the fourteenth year of the National Students’ Art Exhibition held under the patronage of the Royal Society of British Artists. The exhibition is truly inspirational, featuring the best young artists in the country alongside work from some of the fines professional artists.

James Horton MA RBA (President) said: “The work chosen is carefully selected to represent the very best of what is being produced in schools across the nation. With one aim in mind, which is to send the strongest message possible to all our young artists that our society needs creative people, who will enrich the fabric of our culture and who will be taken seriously by professional bodies such as ours, and who will also become the next generation of respected professionals.”