Barbara Jepson
I grew up on the edge of Trafford Park, one of the country’s biggest industrial sites, in the 1950s and for me as for many children, nature was replaced by bricks, concrete, steel, steam and smoke. For years I thought that flowers only existed as patterns on material so my current work makes up for those lost years of flowers and all things natural. Through painted backgrounds and appliquéd shapes I aim to capture the exuberance and chaos of mixed garden borders.
