Growing up in North Yorkshire, I spent ten years by the coast, looking for shells and fossils on the beach and walking in the woods. After that, I lived on a farm on the edge of the moors for 12 years, hunting for northern eggar caterpillars and empress moths, and building pretend nests and lining them with the fluffy bits from willow herb, while Mum picked blackberries. This beautiful area with its unique environment and flora and fauna has been a big influence on me and has stayed vivid through all the stages of my creative career.
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