Visitors to Newtown are set to be greeted by an eight-legged art installation after a wildlife trust art project handed over a spider sculpture to be displayed in the town.

The public will be able to spot the splendid new silvery spider, which was made as part of the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust's(MWT) Art Oasis project, in its temporary new home outside the Oriel Davies in Newtown's Town Hall Gardens.

The Spider was ‘handed over’ into the safe hands of Open Newtown and has been created in collaboration with the Art and Design students of Newtown College, who were given a brief to create an ‘amenity space sculpture depicting the natural world’.

They then voted for local artist and blacksmith Spike Blackhurst to take their chosen sculpture forward to completion and installation.

Funded by the Welsh Assembly and EU backed Initiative "Arwain", the project aims to bring people and wildlife together through the arts, and has delivered creative art based activities and outreach projects with varied groups and organizations over the past two years.

MWT say staff, volunteers and local artists will continue to work together inspiring people of all ages and abilities to think about "our place in the natural world and our responsibility to it".

Participants have learnt new skills whilst widening knowledge of crafts and techniques helping to bring nature alive, creating and interpreting wildlife and providing a lasting legacy for all to enjoy.

All partners and businesses involved or have offered support have been invited to a launch on Tuesday, April 30 at the Oriel Davies.