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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Helen William

Edmund de Waal: People need to connect with their hands and to make things

PA Wire

Making things is a positive move that can help people’s mental health and children should be encouraged to do more of it, artist and writer Edmund de Waal has said.

The 57-year-old, a potter for more than 50 years, described being made a CBE for services to the arts as “extraordinarily surprising”.

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