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Nathan Bevan

The guerrilla artist whose work almost nobody sees

She's the female Banksy who breathes new life into derelict buildings with her colourful creations. And just like that notorious mystery graffiti artist, whose designs have turned up on back street garages and motorway underpasses, the old eyesores she targets with her talents are equally off the beaten track.

However Christina Dembinska's work doesn't involve cans of spray paint but rather stained glass windows with which she's revamped everything from rundown rural chapels to disused public loos. The only problem is that some of the locations she picks can be so remote that hardly anyone will ever get to see the fruits of her labour.

Indeed, as was the case with an old derelict shack she enhanced in a Snowdonia slate quarry, some of her efforts end up destroyed almost as soon as she puts them in place. Not that the determined 63-year-old is ever deterred from her mission.

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