More empty shops have been brightened up with pretty pictures.

The latest vacant buildings to be given a makeover by Brighton and Hove City Council are the former Woolworths store in Blatchington Road and the former Festive Cuisine in Holland Road, Hove.

City-based artist Martin Hall loaned his landscape painting of the seafront from Hove to the Marina to decorate 63 Holland Road while the picture on Woolworths is a photograph of shoppers with the motto: “Whatever you are looking for….Hove is sure to have the shop for you.”

Across the city, Rottingdean received an added attraction with the installation of two reproduction oil paintings on the former Lloyds Pharmacy shop at the junction with the A259.

The Seaside, painted around 1920 by Alice Maude Fanner, captures a scene from the local area while The Ponte Vecchio, Florence, was painted in 1844 by Francesco Raffaello Santoro and was reproduced from Brighton Museum and Art Gallery’s collections.

Both images were chosen by Rottingdean residents.

They are the latest to be put up by the council's environment improvement team to keep empty buildings from becoming derelict and blighting an area.

In April, the council put photographs of contemporary scenes on the former Damart shop in Queen’s Road and Astoria cinema in Gloucester Place, Brighton.

Council leader Mary Mears said: “These images have really brightened up our shopping districts. Empty shops are a fact of life at the moment, but by using them to display artwork and interesting photographs, it makes the area more welcoming.”