Artist's Palette

Art is for Everyone

Michelle Nguyen has always had a love for animals. Being one of eight children, she says she had almost every kind of pet imaginable growing up. Her biggest passion was for her horses, in which Michelle and her sister had their own horses, “Molly and Perry”.

As well as a passion for animals, Michelle loved to draw. “I remember my dad used to bring home quite a lot of unwanted paper from work for my brother David and I, where we would

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