“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…
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“I have created a knitted, nostalgic, distinctive, colourful world of creatures accessories and products for your home.” We speak childhood, creativity and designing textiles with the brilliant east London-based artist and mum-of-two Donna Wilson…
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“Growing up surrounded by knowledge and access to art, culture and literature felt very natural. My parents never told me what I could and couldn’t do, but always supported the decisions I made.” Artist Sian Gledhill on a creative upbringing and raising her own son, Otto…
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“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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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…
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She lives by the seaside in East Sussex with her husband – a musician – and earns her crust making rather lovely toys and decorations for children. We meet Michelle Kreussel, founder of The Fox in the Attic, to talk mornings and artist’s studios…
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UK-born, NYC-based artist Jon Burgerman is renowned for his brilliantly bright, doodle-style illustrations and murals. We talk American grub, the secret to Instagram success (he has nearly 50k followers) and sharing his studio with mice…
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“My business cards say ‘LIZZIE KING – I MAKE THINGS’ – I do so many different things that I thought that was the easiest way to describe what I do.” Meet artist, maker, teacher and soon-to-be published author Lizzie King…
Work Life
She left a high pressured job, as head of year at a Hampshire secondary school, to pursue a creative dream: to make jewellery for a living. Ten years later, Joanne Tinley talks motherhood, jewellery-making and surviving cancer…