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Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

London leavers: 'We rent out our Brixton flat to pay for our £1,200 a month rent on a house in Devon'

Stuck at home bored, jobless, and looking for distraction at the start of the pandemic, Tabitha Osborne-Fox was flicking through Instagram when some paintings made with resin caught her eye.

While some of us learned to knit or made industrial quantities of banana bread during the long weeks of lockdown, Tabitha did some quick research, ordered supplies and then — with the aid of YouTube — decided to teach herself the technique to while away the time.

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