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What Led You to the Stage Where You're Balancing All These Things
When I left school, much to my mother's consternation and said I was going to be a secretary because I wanted to make money. So I did, it was a very bad art education, to be honest. There was no real teaching in it, but we did have a studio space and we could go paint and write and I loved that. And one of the lecturers that I didn't know bought two of my drawings and gave me 60 pounds each for them - which as a student in the 80s was a lot of money. They always think, why did I not think? Wow, you know, somebody loved my, I didn't. But there was this drive