Ilkley sand and ice artist Jamie Wardley today produced an image depicting a girl’s face in the dry riverbed on Irvine beach in Scotland.

The work is part of a campaign to stop the building of a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston.

The beach was transformed into a massive work of art with giant sand drawings illustrating the main themes of the campaign.

Mr Wardley, of Ilkley, who grew up in Bradford and was educated at Buttershaw School, discovered sand sculpting nine years ago and set up his business, Sand In Your Eye.

Last year he created a 4.5 metre high sculpture of Charles Darwin in Centenary Square, Bradford, to mark the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth.