When I started teaching art classes in my basement in 2014, I never imagined we'd one day have the studio we do today.
Some of the students who've been with me the longest still proudly announce, "I was in Karen's basement."
New students occasionally look a little alarmed... until they realise they're talking about art classes.
Our classes are all about building skills. We teach our students how to be good looking, guide them through the techniques of each art medium, and every year they return we build on what they've already learned.
a note about "good looking".
Karen often asks students if they are good looking - it's not their features she's talking about - but how they use their eyeballs.
Art skills are at the heart of everything we do, but we're always looking for new ways to share them.
One of the joys of teaching year after year is watching students revisit subjects they love, only this time with new skills, different materials and a completely different way of seeing them.
