A creative teenager has won a new arts award.

More than 100 artists aged between 16 and 18 from across the county submitted their best efforts for the North Wall Gallery's inaugural Wall to Wall exhibition, in South Parade, Oxford.

Thirty of the best were chosen to hang on the walls of the Summertown gallery as part of its North Wall Festival, and 18-year-old Florence Amey's sculpture Birdsong was chosen as the winner - netting her £500 from Barclays.

Miss Amey, a student at D'Overbroeck's College, in Banbury Road, said: "I am so happy to have won. To be judged the best from a group of people my own age is fantastic.

"I thought the standard of entries was really good and that a painting might win as there were many more paintings than sculptures."

Her sculpture depicts a wire head and shoulders with a wire running out of its mouth with a bird attached, representing freedom, flight, speech, song and freedom of speech.