Paintings from the Arts Council’s contemporary loan collection are currently being displayed at the Family Library in Westmoreland Road in Douglas.

Staff at the library have joined up with the Arts Council to display pieces from their loan collection on a three-monthly cycle.

Arts development officer Martyn Cain visited the library to launch the initiative.

Library executive director Laura Jones said: ’This is a collaboration we are very excited about as it will showcase work by many of the most prolific Manx, British and international artists of the past two decades on display.

’The paintings really look fabulous and we hope they will inspire local children and families and spark an interest with world renowned art.

’We are pleased to be working alongside the Arts Council, further promoting their collection to encourage, inspire and invigorate, and urge anyone to pop in and take a closer look.’

Those initially on show at the library comprise three prints by Langlands and Bell, entitled ’Logo Works’, and a print by Damien Hirst called ’Untitled’.

Langlands and Bell began collaborating in 1978 while studying fine art at Middlesex Polytechnic.

Hirst is a world-renowned English artist, entrepreneur and art collector and one of the young British artists who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.