Q. Why do you think children are often good artists?

A. In part, due to their lack of experience and technical skill, they break many of the rules of drawing (perspective, foreshortening, scale, etc.) and in doing so they often make work that is unexpectedly fresh and visually fascinating. Also, it is my view that children are more likely to be free from visual cliche and are, therefore, able to access and communicate experiences and emotions that are startlingly genuine and original. Children are often frank and uninhibited when they draw and they tend to produce work that is powerful as a result.

For more on this subject read Making Sense of Children’s Drawings by John Willats. Willats asserts that “learning to draw is like learning a language, one of the major achievements of the human mind”.