Featured stories 

by Take Two

Articles, artist interviews, and student stories - offering insight into creative practice, process, and possibility.

Student stories

Artwork by Kimberly Schmid - student of Edible Abstraction - abstract painting course

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Student Success Story: Kimberly Schmid

Art had long served as a therapeutic outlet for Kimberly, a way to process...

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Artwork using gel plate printing, it features a face, with some letters/words and and colours pink, orange, yellow and blue. It is work by Ella Haywood - student of Art & Design with Tara Axford.

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Student Success Story: Ella Hayward

“Gel printing for me was really therapeutic, and it gave me space and time for...

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Heather Miller artwork, creating using gel plate printing, featuring letters, patterns and colours blue, green and grey

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Student Success Story: Heather Miller

What Heather found through Tara Axford's gel plate printing course was not only...

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Artwork by Amy Donovan

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Student Success Story: Amy Donovan

Before enrolling in Art & Design with Tara Axford, Amy didn't see herself as an...

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Ghosts - concertina book - by Annegret Fauser - Student Success Story - Focus and Flow

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Student Success Story: Annegret Fauser

"I realised I was using the wrong medium. Once I shifted to paper, I could do...

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Artwork by Donna Towers - Student Success Story for Focus and Flow with Karen Olson

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Student Success Story: Donna Towers

"I went from trying to figure it out… to being able to say, comfortably, I’m an...

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Artwork by Carla Vermeend - Student Success Story for Focus and Flow with Karen Olson

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Student Success Story: Carla Vermeend

"I’m not only a photographer anymore - I’m also a mixed media artist.” explains...

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Artwork by Tanja Gawin - Student Success Story - Connecting with Lissa Hunter

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Student Success Story: Tanja Gawin

"I'm onto my seventh course, and everyone feels like unwrapping a Christmas...

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Liz May Darn_ 2025 - Student Success Story - Connecting

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Student Success Story: Liz May

“I’ve now got that confidence to go out as an artist and show my work where I’m...

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Artwork by Lucy Dundon

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Student Success Story: Lucy Dundon

"The biggest change was learning to think like an artist - not just a maker,"...

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Artwork by Melinda West

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Student Success Story: Melinda West

"If my art nourishes me, it will likely nourish others," says Melinda West.

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Artwork by Karen Harmon

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Student Success Story: Karen Harmon

"I let go of that idea that I have to be something specific to be considered an...

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Artwork by Tammy Murdock

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Student success story: Tammy Murdock

"I needed something new but I didn't know that embroidery was what I needed. So...

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Artwork by Susanne Lange

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Student Success Story: Susanne Lange

“Even though I’m still at the beginning, I feel this type of creative design...

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Student success story: Katy Olson

Take Two devotee Katy explains why she enrolled in Cas Holmes’ course Making...

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