Millie Elliott's art making a big impact on Instagram

16 year old Millie Elliott has been passionate about art since she was knee high to a grasshopper.

She embraced Instagram in 2018 as a platform to share examples of her painting through her profile @artsyambivert.

While it all ticked along nicely for a year everything changed around April 2019 when her follower count began to spike, climbing from 1,000 followers in April to 6,000 in July.

Not only had her fan base rocketed by 500% in 3 months she began fielding requests for commissions (that's paid work to you and me).

So we're flattered that Millie and her parents visited us during the recent school holidays for advice on how to transform her passion into a possible career. Between us we've developed a good list of ideas to pursue during the final term of the school year and we're looking forward to catching up for a review and to continue working on her career pathway in the next school holidays!

A great example of how the digital economy - which is global - presents immense opportunities for people in regional areas who dare to dream and work towards their vision.