The artist’s way

Ask Rachael Stone what first attracted her to the tiny workers’ cottage that she and daughter Juno call home and she struggles to pick just one thing. “I loved the feel of the place,” the artist and full-time mum begins, “the white picket fence, the proximity to the beach, and the fact it had been lived in by another artist. There were paintbrushes and canvases throughout the house, and to me, it felt safe, it felt like home, and it felt like my future.”

Juno, now seven, was a baby when Rachael and her partner amicably