Here in the Saint Stephen’s Upper School, we have a variety of talented artists, ranging from musicians to actors to painters. One of our hidden talents is junior artist Meg LaFollette. Meg grew up in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and she moved to Florida in seventh grade. Meg has always been interested in the art scene because her dad and other family members are artists. She has always been surrounded by people who support creative thinking and the arts.

”I have been creating art for as long as I can remember; it has affected my daily life by shaping my perception of life,” Meg said.  “As an artist, I am able to appreciate little things and recognize beauty everywhere. This makes the amount of inspiration I have pretty overwhelming. My favorite mediums are gouache [a method of painting using opaque pigments ground in water] and pencil, but I’ve experimented with many others, most recently with oils.”

Two summers ago, Meg studied in a pre-college program for traditional art at Sweetbriar College in Virginia, and the last summer, she spent a month in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute pre-college program studying illustration.

We asked Meg what inspired her to become an artist.

“I can’t pinpoint a specific moment I decided that I wanted to be an artist; it’s just always been who I am.”