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  • The English Garden

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    May 19, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS SIAN WILLIAMS AND VIVIENNE HAMBLY
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    BRENT DARBY

    Paper sculptor Kate Kato has always been a country girl at heart. Brought up in Bristol, as a child she lived by the River Avon and with her brother she enjoyed exploring the riverside and woods near to their family home.

    Kate originally trained as a graphic designer at the University of the West of England and then went on to do a number of creative jobs. She worked as a portrait photographer and then a branding designer, but, feeling that she hadn’t quite found her niche, she retrained as a social worker, putting aside her creativity as a hobby only.

    It was when she moved to the village of Gladestry on the England-Wales border

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