GONE FISHING

I had been running a carpet business for 30 years, making customised carpets for renowned artists. Although my carpets were artworks themselves, it was everybody else’s art too. But I couldn’t complain, I was making a good living. Then the recession hit and work started drying up as cheap foreign imports flooded the market.

This period marked a low point in my life, but it also pushed me to finally focus on my own art and