Artist Carrie Preston uses a rather unusual canvas for her work – pregnant women’s stomachs.
Preston says she taught herself how to paint and has now completed over 130 baby bump pictures.
She added: "I was trawling through the internet for inspiration and I came across this new craze in America called belly painting."
"My friend who happened to be pregnant at the time became my muse, and that is where it all started."
Preston says the work usually takes two hours to complete, and that she tends to work on women when they are between 32 and 36 weeks pregnant.
"The cow bump lived on a farm and their whole family history related to working with their jersey cows. There are stories behind each of the bumps."
Preston has raised over £8,000 for charities and her local neonatal unit through "bumpathons", in which expectant mothers sponsor her to paint their bumps.
