The youngster has just been awarded a bronze certificate from Trinity College in London.

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Jack scooped the award after impressing tutors with a Wallace and Gromit-style animated film featuring his own plasticine creation – Mr Monster the lizard and his friends.

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It's an amazing achievement for the youngster, who was diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) when he was a toddler.

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It meant he often found it hard to pay attention in class, but since discovering his artistic flair, he has flourished.

His winning work was done while he was spending one day a week at the Little Woodhouse Hall learning unit in Leeds.

Mum Naomi Leeming-Wilde said Jack had always been creative, and a beautiful painting of the sunset that he did aged just THREE still hangs proudly on her living room wall.

Speaking of his Mr Monster creation, Jack explained: "He's a big
purple, spotty lizard who eats everything apart from the spider army.
"I made all the plasticine people that move around myself.

"I do like Wallace and Gromit and was thinking about them when I did it.

"I like drawing. When I am bored I can just get a piece of paper and sit down and draw. I enjoy it and it makes me happy."

The ambitious young artist already has his sights set on a creative career.

He is hoping to go on to work in computer design when he is older.
He has already designed his own 'concept' car for James Bond and sent it to Aston Martin, the makers of the car that the fictional superspy drives. He would also like to design video games.

Jack, a year seven pupil at West Leeds High in Wortley, was presented with his award certificate at a school assembly.

Tim Boardman, Jack's tutor at Little Woodhouse Hall, congratulated him on his "fabulous" achievement.

He said Jack was the youngest person in the Yorkshire region to get the certificate.