Portrait made of 250,000 hole punch dots

MANCHESTER, England, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A woman in Britain says she used 250,000 hole punch dots to create a portrait of race car driver Lewis Hamilton.

Artist Nikki Douthwaite of the village of Timperley said she wanted to create the 8-foot-by-5-foot portrait of the British Formula One racer to show her love of the sport and Hamilton's McLaren Mercedes race team, The Daily Telegraph said Wednesday.

"I am a massive Formula One fan and I have been since I was a little girl," the 34-year-old said. "And I've always supported McLaren."

"The rest of my family like football, but for some reason I have always liked fast cars. I like the cars and I like all the tactics that are involved."

Douthwaite told the Telegraph she was inspired to combine her love of art and racing after first recreating a landscape work by19th century French painter Georges-Pierre Seurat, who developed the style known as pointilism -- creating an image from dots of paint.

"Having done a landscape I wanted to do a portrait," she said, adding she created the hole punch style after being inspired by Seurat.