A DORCHESTER artist with a love of the Dorset landscape is to feature on television next month.

Marilyn Allis, whose studio is at a working farm at Winterborne Whitechurch, welcomed artist Fraser Scarfe from Lincoln down to the county to film an episode of his series Fraser and Friends.

The eight-part series sees Fraser meet a variety of gifted artists from around the country and join them to paint outdoor scenes.

Marilyn welcomed him at her studio and took him out around the farm to paint before taking Fraser down to Weymouth to explore some of her favourite scenes and find out more about her passion for the area.

She said: “We filmed a little bit in my studio at Winterborne Whitechurch and we got the cows moving around and filmed around the studio hens and all the farmyard animals.

“It was great fun doing that. Fraser painted the cows in acrylic and I did them in watercolour.

“Then we went down to Weymouth because for a lot of the paintings I do Weymouth is a big inspiration.

“It’s just got so much with the harbour views and the little streets with the bunting and the beach donkeys.”

While Marilyn has featured on television before, she admitted that this had been a whole different experience with the cameras focused as much on her than the art she was creating.

She said: “I have done stuff in the studio but this is the first time I’ve done anything where it’s more about me than the painting.”

Marilyn is a Dorset artist through and through, with ancestors linked to Thomas Hardy, and has written a book on painting the county in watercolour.

She said: “It’s just so inspirational we thought we would get the message out that there are lots of good things to paint in Dorset.”

Fraser and Friends launched on Monday, October 6 and is available to watch online at thepaintinganddrawingchannel.co.uk as well as on Sky channel 192 or Freesat Channel 402 from 5pm on Mondays and is repeated at 3pm on Sundays.

It will also be available to view through the Society of British Artist The episode featuring Marilyn will air on November 3.