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I come from an art and crafts family.

My grandmother Casty Cobb (nee Catherine Cockerell, 1903-1995) taught and inspired me to become a silversmith.

My great-grandmother, Florence Cockerell (1868-1912) was a silversmith as well. Casty's father (Douglas Cockerell, 1870-1945), and brother (Sydney Maurice Cockerell aka Sandy, 1906-1987) were art and crafts bookbinders, and her aunt (Olive Cockerell 1869-1910) was an illustrator...

My mother Clarissa works in indigo textiles, my aunt Eleanor Allitt is a painter and illustrator, and my recently discovered cousin Freya Laughton is a craftworker too.

Casty gave me practical training for several years until a few weeks before she died. Since then I have been mainly teaching myself and experimenting with design, with guidance from other ex-pupils of my grandmother and other local jewellers and craft workers especially Christophe Gordon-Brown, sculptor, www.cgb-sculpture.co.uk, and Indian jeweller, Poppy Dandiya www.poppydandiya.com.

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