The work of 10 local artists has been selected to help celebrate the anniversary of a Manx art collective.

A series of stamps are to be issued at the end of the month by the Isle of Man Post Office to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Creative Network, a loose organisation of artists living and working on the Isle of Man.

The stamps feature the work of a range of well-known artists and familiar names, and include both long-established artists alongside relative new-comers to the island’s arts scene.

Three artists from the Grenaby studios, landscape painter Graham Rider, wood carver Graham Hall and community artist and mosaic designer Debra Carney-Tracey have been included, along with wildlife and animal portrait artist Dawn Kennaugh, who has had one of her signature paintings of a bird transposed onto sheets of music, put on to a new 73p stamp.

One of Bruno Cavellec’s paintings, ‘The Gift’, taken from his last successful exhibition, has been included, along with an example of the work of animal sculptor Erika Kermode.

Myra Gilbert, one of the founders of the Creative Network, has a piece of her textile art featured, as does embroiderer Maureen Kennaugh.

Also featured are work by Eric Glitheroe and Sarah Devereau.

The Creative Network was founded in 2012 with the aims of establishing an inclusive community of artists to raise the profile of artists living and working on the Isle of Man, both nationally and internationally.

The stamps are to be officially launched on July 28, with a further exhibition of the work of the members of the Creative Network taking place later in August.