Celebrities including Dame Judy Dench, Joanna Lumley and Jo Brand have contributed to a Barnsley artist's project about inspirational women.
The famous faces have sent snaps of 'strong female characters' from their own lives for Michelle Clarke-Stables to use in her artwork, Snapshots of Familial Gazes.
The Barnsley College tutor, of Doncaster Road, Barnsley, has collected hundreds of images to work with over the years, but for this project she decided it was time to ask others for their snaps.
"I knew to get people interested I would have to pick a subject that would get a strong response," she said.
"I thought about why I made art and what my early influences were and started thinking about all the strong women that had inspired me growing up and throughout my life.
"I wondered if others had also been fuelled by strong female characters at any point in their lives, and if so could I get images of them for the project.
"It's really about women that have inspired other people personally in their own life."
Michelle, 35, asked people to send her snapshots and it has snowballed, capturing the interest of celebrities along the way.
"I've had amazing responses from Germaine Greer who sent an image of her mother, author and poet Dr Maya Angelou sent an image of her grandmother, and Sir Michael Parkinson sent one of his wife.
"Jo Brand, Dame Judy Dench, Michaela Strachan and Joanna Lumley have also sent their submissions for the project.
"I now have almost 100 photographs from around the world and I'm still receiving images for it now."
Michelle is planning to do 40 paintings using the the snaps, which will then be exhibited, and all the photographs sent to her will be included in an exhibition book along with the paintings.
