TEIGNMOUTH’S acclaimed annual outdoor art exhibition has announced this year’s winners.

TRAIL, which represents Teignmouth Recycled Art in the Landscape, has celebrated its 18th year of creations from artists and community groups displayed along the town’s seafront.

This summer’s event was hailed as a big success despite a suspected arson attack early on which destroyed one of the exhibits.

Organiser Amy McCarthy said: ‘This year’s sculpture trail was really well received after our initial vandalism.’

Adults from Camphill, near Buckfastleigh, created a memorial wreath of recycled flowers, mounted on a bicycle wheel, after their original work, of a family wearing wetsuits, was left as a pile of dust earlier this summer.

The artists, who have learning difficulties, had spent three months working to complete their original contribution.

Up to 12 of the Camphill adults got together to make the replacement sculpture.

Now all their efforts have been rewarded after they were jointly awarded the Environmental Award for this year’s exhibition.

Amy said: ‘It was a nice end to the show.

‘We had to hold a virtual award ceremony as we have no community space currently.’

The other joint winner of the Environmental Award was artist Gail Marshall who created Monsters of the Deep.

Gail makes sculptures and costumes from sterile medical waste, basically the bags that scrubs and operating theatre sheets are delivered in and this year made a whole series of fish.

The Public Choice award, sponsored by Teignmouth Chamber of Trade and Commerce, was Enchantment Under the Sea, created by Montgomery Primary School in Exeter.

Winner of the Community Award was the work of Hazeldown Primary School in Teignmouth called Wild About Wildlife.

Artist of the Year was environmental artist Judy Harrington.