“Men tend to feel they are accomplishing their duty by dedicating more of their time to work than to returning home to their families.” French illustrator Emma visually explains the damaging gender divide in the workplace, once kids come along…
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Work Life
“Four out of five businesses fail in the first three years,” says Tallie Maughan, founder of open-access ceramics studio Turning Earth. So how did she turn her idea into a wildly successful enterprise? She shares her business secrets…
Mornings
We often hear about the morning routines of CEOs and business people but what about the successful creative women – working in food, floristry, education and art? Here are the morning routines of five creative female entrepreneurs…
Family
“My late great aunt Tinnie was an amazing, eccentric and inspirational woman – she would choose one primary colour a day and would wear that colour from top-to-toe.” Children’s book illustrator Jenna Herman on finding inspiration in family members and nature…
Family
“Art was not considered to be of much practical use in India when I was growing up,” says Pragya Agarwal. But inspired by her creative mother and arts-focused private school, she pursued a career as an architect and printmaker. She has three daughters (including one-year-old twins)…
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“I remember the first photograph I developed and printed myself. It was a black and white picture of an underpass. It wasn’t particularly good but there was a satisfaction in producing the image myself,” says landscape and fine art photographer, Christopher Pledger…
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The Spanish artist monoperro describes his house with his partner Anak, also an artist, as a “playground. It’s full of art – it hangs on all the walls”. Here, we talk creativity, fatherhood and how to earn a living from your art work…
Family
From the bustle of east London’s Ridley Road Market to campfires in California, Cressida Knapp discusses leaving her nomadic lifestyle to settle in a former school house in rural Ireland. And what’s it’s like living in isolation as a new mother…
Mornings
Penelope Wincer – a freelancing photographer and single mum of two, one with special needs – shares her inspiring Monday Morning Mantra and talks us through Monday mornings in her home in south east London…
Family
The Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Jeffers – best known for his picture books – tells Johanna Derry why his books appeal to children and adults alike, what connects science and art, and how he’s taking to fatherhood…