ARTIST Diane Jones has lent her talent to raising money for the upkeep of St John's Church, the medieval parish church for Devizes town centre.

Mrs Jones, the current president of the Lawrence Society of Art, has painted St John's on many occasions but was approached to do a special painting, which could be reproduced on cards and notelets that will be sold to raise funds for the church.

The cards will be sold during coffee time in the church and the nearby parish room as well as at church fetes and sales.

Mrs Jones, who was born in Ringwood, Hants, but has lived in Devizes for about 50 years, has been painting seriously since the early 1960s and first painted St John's in 1969 as a present for her mother.

She said: "My mother came from Devizes originally and she was thrilled to have a memento of her home town.

"It is a lovely building and I hope the cards and notelets prove popular. I'm sure they will."