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"Inspiration comes from everywhere. Keep your eyes open." Here is another quote I find particularly truthful. From GCSE to the start of A Level, I didn't venture far away from black pen, paper and illustration. It wasn't until I completed a fashion and clothing/textiles National Diploma (2012-2013) and I realized that architecture really had me going, I mean, I really loved architecture: I have done ever since. My A Level Art and Design begun to influence my Fashion course (and vice-versa) and studying both at school and college simultaneously really given me the best of both worlds and I received some memorable advice from both my teachers and my lecturers. My Foundation Degree was really a realization that I worked very much multimedia and that I did love everything. Admitted; I lost my path of architecture throughout the Foundation, but this year at the start of my BA (Hons) Art and Design course I have really picked it back up and already, I have fallen in love all over again.

"You have a unique and amazing contribution to make to the world. Your job is to find both what it is and who needs it. Otherwise, you just have a really cool hobby and should probably just enjoy it in your own time and marry into money." - This quote, I feel, is particularly powerful to me. At the start of my 'art-life', I very much used art as a hobby. My parents wanted me to study veterinary surgery and had taken me to several university open days by the time I was aged 13. It was only when I was studying Art AS Level when I was 17 that my illustrations became known in school and somebody who I knew had one of my animal illustrations, a bear, tattoo'd on them and before long, quite a number of people were contacting me for designs. Soon, I became to realize 'I must actually be good at this?' My art teacher, Jamie Lowe, took time in our lunch time to look for universities where I could study art, the only problem was that I didn't know what I liked within art. I became thereon after 'designing'. I created a new space for a primary school's library, I taught art classes to the younger years from years 2 through to years 9 and I really got stuck in - I began to realized who needed me. Art was no longer my hobby, it became all I knew.