Category: artists’ stories

  • Helen Ireland

    R.F. Do you feel that you are working with an inherited language? Were you also looking at other artists work? H.I. Yes, I was looking at specimens, animals, and I was also interested in images of bulls. I started working from these quite a lot of the time I noticed that things had started to…

  • Beatrix Potter

    THE LITTLE BOOKS, for which Beatrix Potter is best known, form just a part of a life in which she tried to achieve personal independence and fulfilment while at the same time remaining a dutiful daughter in a middle-class Victorian family. Her wealthy and privileged background was a mixed blessing. On the positive side was…