ARTSY LADY

Meet Michelle. She is the neighbourhood queen of all things arty. She loves nothing more than dressing in wild bohemian colours and feigning a universal knowledge of the arts. If you need someone to organise an offbeat ‘paint-along party’ or a ‘literary night with a twist’, this self-appointed arbiter of taste is your go-to woman. If you want to bump into someone who can discuss the latest indie film or a revolutionary artist you’ve never heard of, here she is. This walking encyclopaedia of culture has a tendency to get her wires crossed when it comes to matters even slightly connected to highbrow and lowbrow. Her passion runs deep, but as is often the case with someone extremely knowledgeable in a specific field, she often confuses the most basic pop-culture references. You would be confused listening to this woman talk authoritatively about Picasso’s Starry Night, insisting that Beyonce was one of the Spice Girls.