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    A passion for painting

    Feb 10, 2022 3 minutes

    IN 2017, I WAS UNEXPECTEDLY diagnosed with a serious cardiac illness and my identical twin sister, Sarah, encouraged me to pick up the paint brush.

    Sarah and I are opposite in every way, she’s left-handed, I’m right-handed; she is a meticulous botanical watercolour artist and I’m drawn to paint wildlife in a looser, more impressionistic style.

    Because Sarah was so successful as an artist, I naturally thought I wouldn’t be, so I hadn’t even been tempted to try my hand at painting. After all, Sarah can knit and sew exquisitely, I can’t even sew on a

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