BUS travellers in East Lancashire had better beware -- because soon they could be helping to create millennium masterpieces.

Commuters who use Stagecoach Ribble bus routes will make up part of the Buslife exhibition from June until November.

Buslife has been organised by Burnley-based Mid Pennine Arts in association with Stagecoach Ribble and is supported by Year of the Artist.

Five of the North West's most innovative visual artists have been invited to develop work on the buses.

Work by Michael Robertson, Sarah Carne, Julie Chow Ping Fu, Bashir Makhoul and Paul Rooney will be shown inside buses over five successive months from June to October.

And in November, Buslife culminates with one new image from each of the artist exhibited on the outside of Stagecoach buses. Buslife starts with work by Manchester-based artist Michael Robertson, who will explore the Wild West connotations associated with the company name, Stagecoach. He will use advertisements, often displayed on buses, and dialogue with bus travellers to digitally construct and market a fictional frontier town.

In July, photographer Sarah Carne will produce photographic portraits of passengers to illustrate their daydreams.

Throughout August, Julie Chow Ping Fu will draw humorous comic strips from individual stories collated from people of other cultures and derived from their experiences of bus travel in Britain.

Travellers on the X43 between Burnley and Manchester will witness Bashir Makhoul using local landmarks as backdrops for portraits of bus drivers during September.

And Liverpool-based artist and musician Paul Rooney, will collect fragments of songs or words from passengers to put together an idea of what they think about during their journeys.

The five artists' work will then be brought together for a final exhibition.