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Agnieszka Sikorska-Meikle, Trevallyn
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.” Dan Rather Cheyne Purdue-Pozzo is one of the special few people who have drastically improved my life and won a permanent place in my heart for this. She took a discarded German teacher from the career wheelie bin outside a bureaucracy, with slightly broken pride and fragile self, and crafted an artist. At my first lesson, I showed her what I had learnt from studying “How to draw” books at night when my newborn slept. Her sharp stick started poking. Her unique style of instruction is issuing a few words of direction and launching a barrage of onomatopoeia you have never heard before, but follow, and the magic begins. You learn that this means focus on line, form, tone, exaggeration, simplification, reconstruction... Eventually you learn the craft. Eventually you earn her praise and in the end, with her guidance, you reach the place of your dreams and become an artist, too. Thank you, Cheyne.
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