My wife, Kate Day, who has died aged 52 from pancreatic cancer, was for almost 15 years director of the Manchester Craft and Design Centre, which promotes craft in all its forms and provides studio spaces to about 30 artists each year.
Kate was born in Crawley, in West Sussex, to Felicity (nee Rodgers), a psychoanalyst, and David, a systems engineering manager at IBM. However, she grew up in north London, where she went to Creighton school and then William Ellis school before gaining a degree in the history of design from Manchester Metropolitan University.
