Yes, these were the running thoughts through the mind of little Davina 5 years ago when she first bagged the Prize for the Oman Air Calendar Art Competition. She never knew where her hidden creative talent would lead her, while her amazing parents David and Lina Fernandes were zapped with the performance of their first born. A family of five, the children Davina, Royala and Prince are an understood lot, whose time is spent in studying, sports, music and definitely church activities in their everyday life.

Davina the oldest, is a quiet yet observant child who has a passion for ART and CRAFT. Since small many of us who have watched Davina in her growing years have seen her passion come alive at every small yet important attempt wherever her hands had the opportunity to go-for-it! We her friends witnessed her talent when she won the award for the “best designed card” for Mother’s day organised by NIDO. Her “best” always grew into “ONLY THE BEST”. 

Davina works on all her drawings with pencils, she has not made attempts with paints or crayons which we believe she will start as and when her interests venture into more avenues in Arts and Crafts. Her designs are very intrigue and Fine-Art is where her heart dwells into.   Her hands move with forward strokes and never revert or turn back to deepen/darken a line for clarity. Whatever she portrays, there is a definite theme set in her mind and for her, there is never two-ways about her objectives, set at hand.

At the recent announcement of the Art Competition conducted by BANK MUSCAT and OMANTEL, for children between 6-18yrs of age, where the drawings had to depict their vision on paper about the theme - “40TH YEAR OF  RENAISSANCE IN OMAN” Davina aged 13, spent a good two hours first to think what she would like to put-on-paper relevant to the theme requested. Within 2 days (48 hours) she got round completing THREE drawings and submitted them before the deadline. This was a true amazement for many of us friends to the family.  40,000 entries from children of various denominations poured in left-right-centre. This was something really tedious and mind-boggling for the judges to finalize a list of the best entries at hand.

Nevertheless, soon the day arrived when Davina was selected among 100 names short-listed from a total of 40,000.   Today the 20th of July, is great happiness for proud parents David and Lina and of course for Davina herself as she received her prize for the 6th rank in the winners section. The event took place at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel and as the family returned home from this proud moment of great cheering and rejoicing, we all thank GOD for His blessings poured upon children with great talents.     

DAVINA….. Congratulations….You’re the best!   Keep it up!