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An artist who replicates popular paintings and landmarks on coins has described feeling “overjoyed” after her work was selected to feature in a “creme de la creme” exhibition in the miniatures world. Yvonne Jack started painting on pre-decimal coins – coins struck before the change to decimal coinage in 1971 – in March 2022, with Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night just some of the notable paintings she has uniquely recreated. On June 19, she found out four of her coins were accepted into the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers annual exhibition, which takes place at Bankside Gallery, London, from June 26 to July 6 and showcases some of the best small-scale art. These are her takes on paintings by Joseph Mallord William (JMW) Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire and Hokusai’s The Great Wave, and locations Mullion Cove, a harbour on the Lizard Peninsula, and Brighton Pavilion.