Mrs Liezel Champion

Mrs Champion is currently teaching Grade 8 and 9 and Visual Arts to Grade 10, 11 and 12. She received a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Free State Technikon (Central University of Technology) in 1998. After working in the Art and Book industry for a few years, Mrs Champion joined St Catherine’s in 2005.

While teaching Art, Technology and Design, Mrs Champion obtained her Bachelors of Education Degree (Cum Laude) from Unisa in 2017. She is passionate about developing critical and diverse thinking skills in her classroom. Furthermore, Mrs Champion is involved in the cultural activities of the school.

Mrs Champion bases her teaching and life on the following quote by the American artist, Chuck Close, “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”