Europe’s biggest street art festival is coming to Weston this summer.

Upfest will join forces with Weston Town Council, local artists and organisations including Culture Weston to create a series of murals on buildings across the seaside town this month.

Up-and-coming local artists from Weston, as well as artists from further afield, will be taking part in the project.

They will paint 10 different murals over 10 days, mainly focused in and around the town centre.

The initiative has been funded with a £20,000 grant from the town council.

There will not be a set theme, with artists being asked to come up with their own designs.

The murals will form part of a permanent trail around the town, and it is hoped this will help to bring people into Weston. A shortlist of artists for the project is now being drawn up.

Permission from property owners is currently being finalised for the murals to be painted.

Details including a map with all the locations of the murals will be released shortly.

Upfest in Bristol launched in 2008.

In its first year, around 40 artists took part but this has grown over the years and now more than 400 artists flock to the city to paint.

The last Upfest was in 2018, which was followed by a fallow year in 2019.

Last year’s event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

This year's ongoing Upfest in Bristol began in May and will see 75 walls painted in 75 days in the lead-up to the main weekend in August.

The town council earmarked cash to bring a street art festival to Weston.

Weston already boasts a number of murals and street art, including work by artist Martin Darcy - who painted the stand out orca whale and tortoise mural on the side of the Royal Hotel.

It held its first-ever Spray Jam event last year, with artists using their creative talents to paint hoardings outside the former police station in Walliscote Road.