THIS weekend is your last chance to catch an art show which truly offers a selection of the best contemporary Cymraic art around.

The Welsh Artist Of The Year exhibition, which runs until May 22 at the foyer galleries in St David's Hall, Cardiff, is in its third year since being launched as part of the city's Millennium celebrations.

And with categories including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, wood, textiles, jewellery and ceramics, there's something for everybody who likes art The show offers a wealth of artistic talent from across a famously creative nation.

Hazel Hughes, of St David's Hall, said: "The exhibition's growing every year and this year we introduced applied crafts - ceramics, jewellery - for the first time.

"We had about 400 entries and the judges chose 112 for the show, and then they chose the best work out of that group."

The winners have been announced, and though sadly there's not a Gwent artist among them, the work is indisputably worthy of reward.

Porthmadog's Rob Peircy took first prize - Welsh Artist of the Year 2002 - with his luminous Y Dawnswyr (The Dancers).

And 27-year-old Swansea art student Warren Paul Williams took a leaf out of Lucien Freud's book to win the Student Prize with his hauntingly naturalistic Man Asleep. The third prize, voted by the public who visited the exhibition, went to Malcolm Edwards for his beautiful landscape Maes y Gaseg. Edwards was inspired by the mountains surrounding Halkym, a former lead-mining village overlooking the Cheshire Plains.

The show runs until May 22 in the Foyer Galleries at St David's Hall, Cardiff. Open from 10am to 5pm (or later if there's a show on) and admission is free.