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Timing is everything – a bit like cooking! The design time is a tiny piece in the whole jigsaw. And I haven’t even mentioned organising exhibitions, travelling all over the world to visit clients in their extraordinary homes (I like that bit) and doing the accounts (my husband loves that bit). S: Has your move to France changed your work? Sent it in a new direction? Revitalised it?
H: France has always been important to me. I’ve come back to my cultural roots. My year in Paris had a big influence on me and I feel in that sense I’ve “come home”. Also France is a sane place to raise a family. You can’t surf in Stockwell...
We live in a coastal area famous for it’s salt marshes and oyster farming. The oyster farmers throw out old bits of metal and machinery onto the the mud flats and I find these rusty objects irresistible. I regularly coerce my children into dragging these heavy, obscure objects home with us. My sculpture named Oyster Bed Man is the end result of one of these forays.
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