Sarah Campbell has been working from home since long before a certain highly contagious virus made it the norm. The octogenarian print designer’s studio is in the second bedroom of her rented flat in Gipsy Hill, but handpainted scraps, doodled paper and piles of fat quarters — which patchwork hobbyists can’t get enough of — spill out across every surface of the living room. “I’m not a good throw-away-er. The trouble is, it all comes in handy,” she chuckles.
Of the sofas laden with works in progress she explains: “Things move around a lot — in piles! The thing is, I’m always between things; last week I was teaching handpainted fabrics at the Fashion and Textile Museum and just before that, I was in West Yorkshire making some little films about how to paint things, so I’m always unpacking, packing, unpacking…”
