AMATEUR artist Brian Ramsey has been chosen from hundreds to compete against eight artists and alongside a further 50 “wildcard” artists in the third heat of this year’s Landscape Artist of the Year serie.

The programme started on Tuesday on Sky Arts at 8pm, and the Darlington artist appears in the third heat which goes out on October 30.

If successful, the talented artist goes through to the semi-final at Felixstowe Docks airing on November 27, and the three chosen artists from there, will then compete in the final in Greenwich Park which airs on December 4.

This is the fourth series of the show, which is produced by London and Glasgow-based independent production company Storyvault Films.

The show is hosted by new co-presenter – actor and art-lover Stephen Mangan alongside Joan Bakewell.

The judges are artist Tai Shan Schierenberg and independent curators Kate Bryan and Kathleen Soriano.