
Young Artist of the
Year 2005 at Merry Hill shopping centre, aged 13
Several months later, I had won my category of Young Artist of the Year. It was an amazing feeling finding out I'd won and later receiving my award and prize money. Then a couple of months later my artwork was displayed at the shopping centre, and I was even featured in the newspaper on three separate occasions.
When I was 14, there was a house art competition at school to draw a picture of an animal. I felt I had to enter it because drawing animals is what I love to do, and so I drew an A4 picture of some polar bears and gave it in. Not long after I found out I'd come 1st and won it for my house team. My polar bear picture was then put up in our school library for a while.
At the beginning of 2007 I entered an online art competition. The idea was to design a sea life stamp, and so I painted a small picture of a killer whale in acrylics. Then I uploaded it to the website and people voted for it. A while later I found out that I'd come 1st.
A few months later I entered another competition on the same website, only this time it was to draw a cartoon. So I drew a picture of a splodge thing and uploaded it, and about a month later I had come 1st again!
In 2008 I entered an art competition for Kodak Lens where I had to create a piece of art based on the theme 'Your World Through Your Own Eyes'. As I had only a weekend to do it and I was supposed to be revising at the time for my exams, I wasn't going to enter it. But then I changed my mind and painted two penguins sat on an iceberg watching another piece of their home floating away. I thought it would be different to what everyone else entered, and when it came down to the judging evening I came 2nd overall. I was also featured in the newspaper again!


2nd in the Kodak Lens
competition at the RBSA, aged 16