As a child, I thought I was an artist,” Annie Sloan says while sitting in her brilliantly eclectic Oxford, UK, home surrounded by her own upcycled furnishing creations. “I remember being at school as a little girl and a girl in my class winning the art prize and I was thinking, ‘No, that’s wrong, it should be me, don’t you understand?’”
Annie wasn’t altogether wrong. It was just that it took her a while to discover what sort of an artist she was. “I went to art school and also studied fine art at university, but it took me a while to work out who I was and what I wanted to do,” she says. “I had a brief career as a musician, in a band while at uni, called The Moody and The Menstruators, magazine for a while but thought I wasn’t good enough as a writer to make it as a journo. I then spent some time doing bespoke paint techniques and murals in people’s homes. I had some pretty amazing clients.
