AN award winning Ealing artist is to have some of his work showcased at an art exhibition.

Widower Basil Wynbergen, 75, of Willowmead Close, Ealing, will have to wait to see if he has won the 2003 Aviation Paintings of the Year exhibition in London as he did three years ago.

His work Beeched Beech is valued at £675 and captures the instant a pilot's life flashed before him as he crash landed his plane onto Worthing beach in West Sussex.

Mr Wynbergen, who was on holiday with a friend, just happened to be driving by at the time and began snapping away for rough sketches which were to become his 2003 entry. Mr Wynbergen will pick up £1,000 if he can repeat a win.

Aviation Paintings of the Year exhibits at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, from July 22 to 27