Local resident Miss J Hickman has been announced as the winner of the Sure ‘Win your own Masterpiece’ competition.

The competition, which has been running alongside the Sure Street Gallery in partnership with Jersey Heritage, offered entrants the chance to win a framed copy of ‘View of St Helier, 1833’ by correctly identifying the number of animals in the painting.

The competition supplements the Sure Street Gallery in partnership with Jersey Heritage, which has been running over the summer.  Since 28^th May, the very heart of St Helier has been transformed into an al fresco gallery to exhibit 12 actual size copies of some of Jersey’s most famous paintings.

The Street Gallery, which has livened up the town for four months, will leave the streets on the 6^th October but Steve Smith, Head of PR for Sure, is confident that the success of the initiative will lead to similar events in the future.

“The response to the Sure Street Gallery in partnership with Jersey Heritage has been fantastic,” said Mr Smith.

“It is so important to showcase the island’s art heritage, and even more important for it to be completely accessible by the whole community. We are looking into repeating this initiative, or a similar one, in future. Sure would also like to extend its congratulations to the competition winner, and hope that she gets great pleasure from the masterpiece that she now owns.”

The last day of the Street Gallery is Sunday 5^h October.  Anyone wishing to walk the route and learn about Jersey’s most famous paintings can get information leaflets and a map from the Jersey Museum, Sure store, and other distribution outlets.