Want to see the Northern Lights but don't fancy travelling all the way to Lapland?

The UK's largest light festival, Lumiere London, comes to the capital next week for its second edition of the spectacular showing - and one of its installations is entitled Northern Lights.

The festival, which runs from Thursday, January 18 to Sunday, January 21, features the work of more than 40 UK and international artists transforming the city into a nocturnal art exhibition.

Free to visit - so perfect for that post-Christmas budget it will take place both north and south of the River Thames, so could be worth a train ride into town.

In Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, will be Northern Lights by Aleksandra Stratimirovic, inspired by the experience of viewing the aurora borealis (the real Northern Lights). Passers-by will be able to experience the wonder and magic of the shimmering northern lights in a city and a place where they would never naturally appear.

In South Audley Street, Mayfair, visitors will find Bough 3, commissioned specially and created by British artist and lighting designer, Simon Corder, featuring vivid tubes of fluorescent light up the façade of the prominent Mayfair building, bathing the surrounding site in a soft blue light.

And in South Molton Street, Mayfair, just off Oxford Street, will be Impulse, by Canadian design practice, Lateral Office, a set of eight illuminated interactive seesaws that invite the public to find their inner-child and play in an urban, public space.

The more they move, the more light and sound is produced.

For more details go to lumiere-festival.com