Holy pop art Batman! Have you ever seen paintings like these before?

It's not a claim many people would be keen to make but artist Paul Burgess says he has worked on some of the worst paintings in Sussex.

And while the original pieces may not be all his own work, the weird and wonderful additions he has made to landscapes and portraits are certainly unique.

The rejected works are first salvaged from the dusty bargain basements of charity shops before he works them up into his own brand of quirky art.

Now some of them will be revealed to the world in their new guise at an exhibition.

Paul, 41, of Princes Terrace, Kemp Town, who works as an illustrator and designer, said: "I have always collected from junk shops and charity shops.

"About a year ago I decided to try to find the worst paintings I could from charity shops.

"It is a way of recycling paintings no one particularly wants and changing them into something more exciting."

Paul's weird and wonderful creations see Batman and Robin in the Yorkshire Dales, an abandoned Ford Escort in the Scottish Highlands and Northern Soul in the Forest of Dean.

But he has kept the worst finds for himself.

He said: "In my workshop I have a really bad portrait of a dog.

"It looks like his face has been squashed against the glass."

So what about facing the wrath of the people who made the originals?

Paul, who runs his own design studio, Simultane, in Trafalgar Street, Brighton, and has worked as an illustrator for the Sex Pistols, said: "I would actually like to meet the people who did the paintings if they turn up.

"It could happen as I found lots of the paintings in charity shops around Brighton."

All That Chazz is at Simultane until Sunday August 17.