The winner of a national postcard competition will be revealed in Scarborough tonight.
North Yorkshire Art School will be revealing the wining design at a special event.
Over 200 designs have been submitted from around the UK.
Chris Shaw is from gallery, he says picking a winner has been hard.
North Yorkshire Art School have organised the competition on the theme of "Our Town", they asked people in towns around Britain to record the places they live, with a focus on buildings, landscape, people and statues.
In the request for entries the Art School said:
"We want you to document buildings that mean something to you in your local high street and further afield in the local surrounding areas where you might find impressive structures such as viaducts and chimneys, relics of Victorian industrialisation.
Perhaps you’d like to draw attention to something being demolished. Maybe something is being erected or having a change of use that you think would make a good subject. Maybe it’s a local hero whose statue stands in the heart of your town or on a hill everyone can see. Then again, maybe it's someone living and breathing, an unsung hero who does a lot for the community with little reward or recognition.
Perhaps your town has within it a site of natural beauty with rivers and lakes that contain all manner of flora and fauna.
We’re looking for drawings and paintings that demonstrate what is beautiful, vulgar, funny, serious, noble or perhaps what’s just ordinary and commonplace about your town. Whether it is important local heritage that you want to showcase or one of those so-called carbuncles that gets everyone talking, we want to see your art on a postcard."
Chris Shaw from the gallery says they've had a strong response to the competition.
The twenty shortlisted finalists will be on display at the gallery tonight from 6pm-8pm with the winner being revealed during the evening. The postcards will also be visible on the North Yorkshire Art School website from 6pm. The gallery exhibition will run until September.
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