Art Lessons
Nadia Siu Van
Koller’s novel explores universal concepts of what it means to exist and grow, to root and transplant as an artist, a woman, a human, a living thing. Art Lessons has the potential to take root in your heart let it.
“Trees, for me, are like humans,” writes Cassie, the young protagonist of Katherine Koller’s debut coming-of-age novel, Art Lessons. The first-person narrative opens with Cassie as a seven-year-old budding artist and traces her inner life for the next decade, trading the colourful crayons of her childhood for charcoal sticks, blossoming and changing like the trees she sketches over time.