s a small child, my earliest memories of art were: loving colouring-in books to colour in the drawings with pencils, although I wasn’t too keen on painting; my Grade 3 primary school teacher, Miss Toomey, putting one of my drawings on the wall in the classroom of which I was very proud; and winning 1st place for art and craft at the age of seven at the school fete, and not knowing that my Mother kept the certificate I received all those years ago, which I discovered after
