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Nurse-turned-artist Elizabeth Hunn distils passion for life on canvas – ABC News
As a nurse, Elizabeth Hunn saw enough of life and death to convince her to follow her passions and is now a portrait painter with a side hustle in whisky.
Elizabeth Hunn’s story is one of spirit or perhaps spirits.
After more than 40 years of nursing, she took a chance quitting to become a fulltime artist and distiller.
She tried to enrol in a landscape painting class when she was 50, but it was full.
“They suggested I do a portrait class instead so, from the very first class, I was so excited and I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” she said.
“So then I just practised and practised and practised.”
The distillery label features her artwork an…
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