ARTIST Tom McKendrick will have his work displayed in City of Glasgow College.

Tom, from Clydebank, has won and the City of Glasgow College Award and the Glasgow Arts Club Award for his painting Michael Kerr, Paralympian.

He took the main gong at the 134th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, at the Royal Scottish Academy Building in Edinburgh.

Tom will receive two years membership of the Glasgow Arts Club and the painting has been be purchased for the new City of Glasgow College art collection.

He said: "Confronted at seventeen years of age by of a life changing accident which paralyzed him from the chest down, Michael Kerr took to wheelchair rugby.

"It was a great pleasure and honour to paint this young man's portrait. At the age of 29 he has achieved much, deserving admiration for his courage and determination in overcoming the most appalling adversity.

"It is always inspiring to meet an individual who has a real story to tell."

Michael Kerr is a former sports student of the college.

They have helped him with the cost of the special wheelchair required for wheelchair rugby and after he carried a torch in the 2012 Olympics in London he presented the torch to the college.

The exhibition is open until January 31 and features more than 400 new paintings by over 200 leading and emerging artists from across Scotland.