“I have always loved Picasso’s work and I’ve watched documentaries and read about his life, but to see his work in all its media up close was something verging on the spiritual, and I don’t use that word lightly,” says copywriter Hazel Davis, recalling a pilgrimage she made a few years ago from Yorkshire to London to see Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts.
“I wanted to touch it all, inhabit it,” she says. “I soaked up every single inch of the exhibition and spent the next few days thinking of little else. In the end, I returned a few days later and spent even longer exploring it.”
