I have learnt to trust my instinct. I studied graphic communications at Bath, with a view of going into editorial design, but following a serious brain trauma, I was forced to take three years out, before completing my degree. Confined to a wheelchair and suffering from seizures, I was worried this was it. My dad encouraged me to help him weed and plant and this gave me hope—igniting an obsessive passion for gardening and desire to paint plants. When I returned to university, I was continuously told that I couldn’t draw and would only succeed by copying. This made me very determined to go against the grain and prove them wrong.
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