Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda washed up a unique message last month from the sea on to the shores of Tucker’s Town that has left a resident with fresh artwork to adorn her office wall.

Event planner Katie Trimingham told The Royal Gazette: “You always think how you’d love to find a message in a bottle. Now I have a new friend and pen pal as well.”

Ms Trimingham recalled strolling the shoreline between the two hurricanes with her mother, who was looking after a home in the area.

She said: “We popped down to the beach just to check and, sure enough, there was a bottle washed up in the sand. I didn’t think anything of it at first because there’s so much trash everywhere.”

She soon spotted something “bizarre” inside.

“You could tell that it had been rolled up,” Ms Trimingham said. “I could only just see it.”

Enough was visible for her to spot a hint of something that looked like roses.

“I took it home, bagged it up and smashed the bottle on the concrete steps, and there was this beautiful painting,” she said.

It was accompanied by a business card for a painter in the city of Greenfield, Massachusetts, named Dennis Wade, prompting her to get in touch.

Mr Wade told the Greenfield Recorder that it was one of four paintings he had put out at sea into the Atlantic inside individual bottles.

He released the paintings four years ago from the small coastal town and lobster port of Stonington in Maine, where he and his wife regularly holiday.

The newspaper reported that it was “the only one that ever materialised”.

Mr Wade said he had forgotten about the artwork, which depicts a moonlit scene outside a cottage with roses, to a background of a sailboat out on the water.

He said Ms Trimingham told him, “You made my day”, to which he responded: “You made my week.”

Ms Trimingham, who owns the luxury wedding and events planning company All the Trimmings, told the Gazette that Mr Wade had shared instructions for mounting the canvas scene on to plywood so that it could take pride of place on her office wall.

With just one of the four pictures recovered, she said she was intrigued to know that there were “three more out there”.

Stonington, on Deer Isle on the Penobscot Bay, is roughly 750 miles north of Bermuda.

The Recorder quoted ocean scientist R. Mark Leckie, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who said Mr Wade’s artwork could have been helped to Bermuda by the chilly Labrador Current flowing south from the Arctic Ocean.

He said the current could have carried the painting in its bottle into “one of the eddies associated with the Gulf Stream, which likely spun the bottle in the direction of Bermuda in the Sargasso Sea”.