In 2017, when Carol Douglas got the news she would be going to art school aged 66, she couldn’t have been happier. “I felt I had been given the biggest gift on the planet,” she says.
Throughout her adult life, Douglas had regretted giving up art at school when she was 16. “Art is for Saturday mornings,” her parents told her, and she listened, dropping the subject for Latin and then pursuing a sociology degree. “Ever since then, I had a general underlying feeling that I hadn’t done something I should have done and I never would,” she says.
