With one foot in tradition and one in innovation, how does Somerset inspire its workers? Over the coming months VIK MARTIN will take a stroll though the alphabet to find out.
THERE’S a little piece of heaven at the bottom of Dawn Cameron-Dick’s garden on the outskirts of Portishead. Light pours in through an enormous window and inside, bathed in sun, baskets and baskets of fabric are sorted neatly into rainbow order. Dawn draws back an entire wall of the studio and pulls out quilt after stunning quilt, laying them out in front of me. One depicts Glastonbury Tor, another a grid of brightly decorated elephants. Another shows the Rocky Mountains near Colorado where she grew up. Even now Dawn always has to have a view of the hills and she points out her current one through a small gap in the trees.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Somerset Life.
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