What is happening in the studio right now

These are the ones I’d start with, only because they expire. What the studio looks like with the last of the 390 still to make is true right now, and it won’t be in three months. I’d rather have it in your voice than try to recreate it later from memory.

Pick any one and record it as a voice note. Five minutes is plenty. Don’t prepare. I’d rather have the answer you’d give me standing at the bench than one you’ve worked out first.

Answered ones come off this list as we go.

1. What does the studio look like right now, with the last of the 390 still to make?
2. What has changed about the way you work since this commission started?
3. What was the hardest part of getting to this size?
4. Who are the people making these panels, and how did you train them?
5. How many artists have you brought in for it?
6. When the last panel goes out the door, what do you think you’ll notice?
7. Talk me through one panel, from the clean sheet of paper through the seven processes.
8. What does a panel look like when it is going wrong?
9. What is the difference between plaster you like and plaster you don’t?
10. What is the hardest thing to teach someone?
11. Which part of making a panel do you still do yourself?
12. What is the one tool you would be lost without?
13. What does the studio sound like on a good day?
14. What do designers get wrong about handmade wallcovering?
15. What should someone know before they order 390 panels of anything?

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