ANN Mitchell has been a Carmelite nun for more than 50 years, and an artist for even longer.

“I used to draw when I was a kid,” she said. “I drew cats and dogs from cartoons and Corn Flakes packets, copying photographs or pictures from comics. For as long as I can remember, I've been involved in art, but not seriously.”

A retired nurse (she did her training in Broken Hill), Mitchell devo...