(Photo by Mike Wakefield)

Name: Nate

Age: 16

School: Sutherland Secondary

Art teacher: Veis Dokhani

Favourite kind of art: Visual arts

Favourite artist: Catherine Strongman

Veis Dokhani writes: "Nate is a very talented and creative student who commits a lot of time to completing work with quality in mind. Nate is innovative and demonstrates great planning and project management skills. Nate has great observational and technical skills both in 2D and 3D art and creates conceptual, meaningful art using creative and clever image development strategies."