As is so often the case when you rediscover what you had once put aside, it took a dramatic change of routine to bring Sussex-based paper artist Dona Crisfield back to art and making, her first creative passions.
Born into a creative family – her grandfather was an artist and art teacher, her father an architect and illustrator – Dona had always enjoyed working with her hands. “Papier-mâché, sewing, basket-making, crochet…” she says, rattling off crafts in which she’s dabbled over years. “It was totally natural that I’d go on to study art once I finished school.”
Studying textile art at Loughborough School of Art & Design, Dona specialised in freehand machine embroidery and explored stitching with paper layers. In
