MAGGIE SINER BELIEVES that the most important part of painting is dedication, consistency and sensitivity; skills she learned from her parents who were both chemists. Her earliest creative work was making jewellery “out of random bits” in her father’s workshop.
“At a young age, I happened to be very good at drawing likenesses and was regularly praised for it by family and teachers, which gave me even more positive reasons for doing it. I was a quiet child and preferred being an observer. This quality developed observational skills and visual sensitivity, which led to drawing and painting,” she says.
Her subjects then, were her classmates, characters from her favourite novels as well as “complex scenes from adolescent life.”