Toronto teen says she's 'in shock' after getting $4.1 million in scholarship offers
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At just 17 years old, Jane Forrest says she's always known that art was her calling.
At just 17 years old, Jane Forrest says she's always known that art was her calling.
"I knew I wanted to make things when I was younger, and art had always been the easiest way for me to do that,” Forrest told CTV News Toronto.
It was a family trip to New York City when Forrest was just a child that opened her eyes to the power of paintings.
"I was in [the Museum of Modern Art] for the first time, and I walked into this room and saw this Jackson Pollock painting – and it was unreal to me as a child,” she said. “And in that moment, I didn't realize the impact art could make on people – and that was kind of the transformational moment where as a child, I knew I had to dedicate my life to this."
Forrest says she spent five months working on her application to the Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA).
"The school told me about twenty-ish pieces, and I was just trying to make everything I could. So I did a lot of paintings, photography, sculpture – I got paint all over my bedroom floor, and it was just a mess of making stuff,” she said. “I brought in about 40 pieces."
Accepted to ESA, Forrest has made her mark as an art student over the past several years.
