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like many teenagers, makenzy beard is a busy 14—year—old. i do county level football and netball and i also play hockey for wales, as well as i do lifeguards in my free time and just try to stay active really. but when lockdown hit, with school and sport on hold, the teenager needed another freedom of expression and it came in the form of art. this is the first painting i did. this was created with just three months under her pallet, having never turned her hand to the brush before, even though mum was an artist herself. has she been giving you tips? no, none at all. you can't teach her anything! nothing to teach? what followed was a startling rise through the power of social media. after a tweet by her school saying she'd entered this piece into the royal academy's young artists summer show, her work went viral. it sold out, each piece, for thousands of pounds to buyers from across the globe. within the space of two days, six or seven of the paintings were already sold and more people wanted to buy them and work that was going to be produce