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10-year-old artist's painting steals the show

Sophia is standing beside her painting which is hung on a mustard yellow wall. She has long brown hair, is smiling, and is wearing a white dress. The painting is of cars driving up a road. Either side of the road are bright vibrant buildings. Phil Tragen

A 10-year-old girl's artwork will be displayed next to paintings by the famous artist LS Lowry.

It's because Sophia won the 2025 Copley Prize annual art competition, run by the Lowry Theatre.

She was selected from hundreds of primary school-aged children for her painting titled Bustling Street.

Sophia's work will be on display for a year, where it's expected to be viewed by up to 100,000 visitors!

The painting is of cars driving up a road. Either side of the road are bright vibrant buildings.Sophia van den Bos

Sophia's painting called Bustling Street

Sophia describes her painting as a "more modern and colourful" version of Lowry's depictions of working class life around north-west England.

Sophia added: "His art inspires me to see beauty in everyday life."

The co-founder of the competition, Alison Copley, called Sophia "a very worthy winner" because her work was filled with "bold colours and intricate detail".

Mrs Copley added that she admired Sophia's approach of "painting life as she saw around her, just as LS Lowry did".

Who was LS Lowry?

Someone with white gloves holding a framed edition of one of L. S. Lowry's paintings. It has a dark gloomy colour palette. Hundreds of people are walking across the scene and factories are pluming smoke from chimneys in the background.PA Media

The people in LS Lowry's painting are often called matchstick men

Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in Greater Manchester in 1887.

He spent more than 40 years painting industrial Britain during the mid-20th century.

LS Lowry become best known for painting towns and cities filled with human figures, often referred to as matchstick men.

After his death in 1976, his paintings became very valuable, selling for millions of pounds.

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