VISITORS to North Berwick will be able to send home specially designed postcards free of charge as part of a unique art exhibition in the town centre.

Artist Jayne Stokes has created four paintings of local shop fronts which are being reproduced as postcards for a display in the Telephone Exchange on Westgate.

People visiting the project will have the opportunity to take one of the postcards away with them.

The Wish You Were Here exhibition draws from a series of artworks Jayne produced over the years of shop fronts which were either commissioned for people or inspired by photographs taken as her children were growing up.

Jayne, 45, who runs arts classes for children and adults from her home studio on St Andrew Street, said she loved the idea of people taking away a memento of her work from the exhibition.

She said: “People don’t send postcards any more, it has become a bit of a dying trend with people taking pictures on phones and texting these days.

“I loved the idea of being able to give people the chance to take one away and send it home.”

Three of the shop fronts featured are recognisable images from High Street, with Sugar Mountain, Stop ‘N’ Shop and the Buttercup Cafe on them.

The fourth features the Telephone Exchange itself in a former life when it was a shoe shop.

North Berwick Community Council is funding the project.

The community council led the project to turn the three dilapidated telephone cabins, which sit next to the town’s Post Office, into a micro museum which has become a community space displaying artwork from all ages.

The Wish You Were Here exhibition was due to go on display at the Telephone Exchange this week.