AFTER A BLISSFUL childhood in Orange, NSW, with a painter for a mother, Larissa Blake was always going to be an artist – but her path hasn’t been a straightforward one. “I was blessed with a creative childhood with access to plenty of materials for making and creating,” she says, “but the little rebel in me didn’t want to follow in Mum’s footsteps, so I studied communications and marketing.”
Scoring a coveted job in Sydney’s publishing scene seemed like a dream come true, but it turned out to be more
