One-year-old becomes youngest ever prizewinner in Texaco art competition

Brothers Charles, 5, and Neal Gallagher, 1, have won second and third prize respectively in the youngest age group in the 2023 Texaco Children's Art Competition. Picture: Justin Mac Innes/Mac Innes Photography

Sixteen-year-old Charley Bell has been named the winner of the 69th Texaco Children's Art Competition for her 'intensely vibrant' portrait study.

A passionate artist, Charley's colouring pencil portrait of an older man with glasses askew caught the judges' eyes as a "most impressive piece".