Creative skills from talented Cookstown student on display at Gortalowry House
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She has been a student at the college since 2020 and is enjoying the programme which focuses on personal growth and engagement with a learning environment for students with special educational needs.
Katelynn learns things like how to properly budget her own money, how to process important forms ranging from job applications to passport applications.
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Hide Ad“My experience at the college has been great. I learn a lot here and all my classmates are lovely people. The staff here are all lovely as well.”
Katelynn has a long-held passion for art and creativity which shines through not only her sketchbooks, but now features proudly in a mural at Gortalowry House in Cookstown.
The artwork is dedicated to characters from Sonic The Hedgehog, the popular animated series seen across the silver screen, small screen and countless video games.
“Back in the day, I just loved to watch animated movies. Anything that was hand-drawn or 3D animated, I was just inspired by it. I took it upon myself to learn how to draw by videos, tracing and then practising how to do freehand drawing better and better.”
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Hide AdKatelynn came to this opportunity while displaying her own artworks at an a summer Arts and Crafts Fair at Gortalowry House in August of 2022 and the opportunity to do a mural for them on the wall outside the venue came about.
Her collection on sale at the Arts and Crafts Fair included framed original full colour drawings of Sonic characters and her depiction of both friends and celebrities as Sonic style characters.
Her work also includes designs inspired by popular anime shows such as My Hero Academia in an impressive array of talent from the gifted Cookstown student.
Katelynn has aspirations of moving into the comic book industry: “I’ve always imagined that some day, I could become a great comic book artist. I’ve seen a lot of people who do those types of books and it’s really inspired me to make my own which I’m working on now”.