AN ARTIST is launching her book at a west Dorset pub this weekend.

Philomena Harmsworth is launching Psychedelic Junction, a short story at the New Inn at Stoke Abbott, Beaminster on Saturday between 5pm and 7pm.

Philomena explains: "I have written my paintings. Which as a visual artist presented a challenge - I wanted to make it into a book form, but not being an illustrator, and having already done the paintings albeit in written format, I then had to go back to each written painting and reinterpret each one as this painter would!"

Psychedelic Junction tells the story of ordinary events in life being interrupted inconveniently and the unfolding of events marking you in a way that leaves your breath taken.

"It spans a short semblance of time, in which incident after incident occur like the ripple effect on the glassy surface of a still pond. Each episode a flash of iridescent magic on a commonplace tarmacked journey - a tiresome disruption delivers an internal metamorphosis," Philomena says.

Psychedelic Junction is available for £6.50. The book launch will be accompanied by mulled wine and mince pies.