An Essex-based artist has painted scenes of famous British landmarks on coins to showcase the "beauty" of miniature.Yvonne Jack was exhibiting a mixture of pieces at a pop-up gallery in Southend-on-Sea in March 2022, which soon led to her dabbling in painting on pre-decimal coins - coins struck before the change to decimal coinage in 1971."The woman that ran the pop-up gallery was doing an exhibition at the Houses of Parliament to celebrate the new city of Southend-on-Sea and she said, 'I've got

An Essex-based artist has painted scenes of famous British landmarks on coins to showcase the "beauty" of miniature.Yvonne Jack was exhibiting a mixture of pieces at a pop-up gallery in Southend-on-Sea in March 2022, which soon led to her dabbling in painting on pre-decimal coins - coins struck before the change to decimal coinage in 1971."The woman that ran the pop-up gallery was doing an exhibition at the Houses of Parliament to celebrate the new city of Southend-on-Sea and she said, 'I've got these old coins, can you paint something on them for this exhibition?'" the 48-year-old who is based in Thundersley, Essex, told the PA news agency.