ARTIST Patty Bover used to think she was bad at art.

That was until 13 years ago, when she signed up for a course teaching a style of portraiture called “whimsical faces”.

Only then did Bover realise that art is whatever the artist says it is.

“All I had to do was to let go of control and my ideas of how a face should look,” she said.

“I soon discovered mixed media and collage, and t...