HOW WE CONQUERED OUR GRIEF
‘My cartoons took on a life of their own’
Helen Morrish, 53, is an artist. She lives in south London.
Working as an art director for a women’s magazine, I had life all planned out. ‘When I’m 50, I’m quitting,’ I told my husband Stevie, then 57, in January 2016. ‘You’ve been saying that for years!’ He joked. Both creative souls, I’d been to art school while he was a builder and decorator, with great carpentry skills. I longed to leave my job and be an artist full-time, and I pictured us living out our days together along with our rescue Staffie Rupert, me drawing and Stevie building his
