A 105-year-old artist has been reunited with a painting she created nearly 80 years ago.

Dorothy Fray used to live in Bishopstoke but is now a resident at the Brendoncare Otterbourne Hill home in Winchester.

The wellbeing supervisor, Leeanne Broyd, realised that her grandparents, Annie and Ernie Spreadbury, once worked for Dorothy.

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Dorothy Fray whose painting was given to Margaret Brooks’ parents when they worked for her (Image: Brendoncare)

She said: "I spent one morning with Dorothy talking about art and drawing.

"I printed off some pictures and was amazed when she started using artistic terms such as ‘depth of field’ which I thought was quite unusual."

In a strange twist of fate, it turned out Leeanne's mother, Margaret Brooks, had a painting of a cottage that Dorothy had made for her parents nearly eight decades ago, complete with her signature.

Margaret, who still lives in her late parents’ house in Fair Oak Road, Bishopstoke, visited Dorothy with the painting and photographs of her parents.

Margaret, 84, said: "It’s such an amazing coincidence.

"I remember Dorothy used to go across the road to the woods opposite where she lived where she did her painting.

"She used to love painting bluebells."