My mother-in-law, Caroline Gould, who has died aged 93, was an artist and teacher – and sometime shepherdess. She lived an endlessly curious, well-travelled life.
In the late 1950s, Caroline worked as an art therapist at Tone Vale psychiatric hospital, Somerset, when the therapeutic practice was in its infancy. Her humanistic view of art was influenced by the art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy. Caroline believed creativity was universal, and would share Coomaraswamy’s words with newcomers to her classes: “The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.”
