“Mum is a huge


influence on my life on the arts side. Then one day Dad said I should just ‘go for it’ in the world of art.”


big house near Kingscote station on the Bluebell line. Walking her dog in the woods and along the stream, she sketched and made artworks with the materials that were around her. Her mum often accompanied her and encouraged her to feel the colours and the shapes of the natural world that surrounded the house. She was doing her GCSEs (including Art), then carried on creating more at home. And still Bleau would walk in the woods, often with her mum, also tall but with black hair, sketching and looking at what surrounded them “Mum is a huge


by Roger Booth S


photography by Merry Michau


tooping to fit through the door in my local pub where we had arranged to meet, Bleau appeared, a halo of blonde hair surrounding her, a towering fairy in the surroundings of the dark bar. The occupants at that time of day, three old boys, well worn, looked like friendly trolls in the context of the new arrival. Born quite unexpectedly to a young couple (her mother didn’t realise she was pregnant until she was six months gone), Bleau (pronounced Blue) landed in a council house in Crawley. Her mum was a picture editor for SHE magazine and her dad was a draughtsman. When she was six years old, Bleau moved to a


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