It’s 8am on a crisp Tuesday morning in my local park. The Leaf Man emerges from the mist. In certain artistic circles, and among his hundreds of Instagram followers, the intricately hand-cut designs that Aasen Stephenson painstakingly carves into leaves are highly coveted, and they’re all crafted in his Northampton studio.
The conditions, I’m told, make this morning perfect for our meeting. “You have to collect the