I'm usually a bit reluctant to talk about my relationship with art. I don’t want to sound pretentious or like a cliché. As a small child I’d spend hours looking at things, absorbing their texture, shape or how they worked. I can remember, aged 7, having a connection to art that my classmates didn’t. I
Around that time, living in Essex, I had my first experience of real ‘Art’. It was on a school trip to a Tudor manor house. I spent ages in the long gallery, looking at all the magnificently dressed people, in awe of how the artist...more