Sue Walsham – Born in Pukekohe (1959), and educated at Pukekohe High School and North Shore Teachers’ College. I’ve just retired from 47 years of teaching, having spent the last 37 of these educating Year 7 and 8 students as a Visual Art Specialist. My goal has always been to encourage learners to become visually literate, by identifying with the elements of line, tone, texture, shape, form, pattern and colour. I endeavour to explore a range of these elements in my own art work, ultimately ‘practising what I have preached’ over the years.