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Dab hand

Drawing has always been part of Nick Herd’s life – it just gradually took over and everything else fell away. But after university, he started to really get into painting. Although he considers himself a natural draftsman, he says painting is hard “and always will be. I guess that’s why it’s quite a mystical thing.”

I’d love to say I’ve lived off pasta and wine in Italy, but actually I grew up in Dairy Flat, on

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