Artist Marinela Caldarus may have closed her studio at Slough's Queensmere Observatory shopping centre during the lockdown but she has never been so busy.

Marinela, 34, of Layburn Crescent, Langley has been busy creating images based on the world she sees around her during the current crisis - using water colours mixed with charcoals and inks to record what she sees.

She said: "Everyone is trying to contribute something in this situation, I feel that as an artist my job should be to document the times."

She has dedicated one of her works to Slough councillor Shabnum Sadiq who died of the Coronavirus and to other victims - entitling it I Saw Angels.

Images of police enforcement, people applauding the NHS, isolation, price hikes and mental health also feature. It will all be exhibited locally after isolation measures are lifted.

Meanwhile Marinela is also leading a local art competition for children entitled 'Slough young artists: Show and Competition'.

Children aged five to 18 are invited to submit artworks about their experiences during lockdown and to send their works to info@homeslough.org.uk, for the chance to win art bundle sets and a free art course with Marinela.

Marinela thinks that many children are not really aware of the magnitude of what is happening around them but will rely in the future on artwork created now to understand what happened.

She comes from Romania and travelled widely before settling in Langley, where she lives with her husband caligrapher Ovais Shamsuddin and two sons aged four and seven.