A CO Antrim schoolboy has had his artwork chosen to feature in a calendar that will be sold at petrol stations across Ireland.
Ryan Dickson, from Jordanstown School, Newtownabbey, won a `special merit award' in the annual competition to feature in the 2018 Texaco Children’s Art Calendar.
The calendar has been a fixture on walls in thousands of Irish homes since 1955.
The 13-year old's picture, entitled Space, has been selected to illustrate November next year.
The competition adjudicator said Ryan's work was one of a number which "perfectly reflect the incredible talent and imagination of children and the essential role played by schools who encourage and inspire their students through art education".
The calendars are already on sale at a select number of Texaco service stations countrywide and through Texoil, Valero’s home-heating oil division.
Past winners inlude Ruairi Quinn TD - his featured at the time of the Suez Crisis.
Artists Dorothy Cross, Graham Knuttel and Robert Ballagh as well as fashion designer Paul Costello also all featured during their school years.
