Artist's special effects creation wins at World Bodypainting Champs

Body artist Yolanda Bartram painted North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams to promote last year's New Zealand Body Art Awards. Photo / Glenn Jeffrey

A Kiwi designer has taken out a top spot at the World Bodypainting Championships.

Dutch-born Yolanda Bartram won first place for special effects makeup.

Her husband Julian Bartram says Bartram's artwork is based on an Indian design crossed with a science fiction genre.

He says the competition, held in Austria, has an audience of 30,000 with at least 1000 photographers.

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