CANDLE AND BLUE

Candle and Blue offer a beautiful collection of sculptures for the garden, a choice of classic or modern conservatory furniture and stylish lighting.

Brighten up your home and enhance your garden this summer with a new piece of furniture – or create a focal point in your garden with a pair of garden deer sculptures.

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open a lot of doors in that way, and you meet some fascinating people of all walks of life.

How do you find the two worlds of fieldsports and art mix?

A lot of people who don’t hunt ask ‘if you love something why do you go out and kill it’. But hunters have always loved their quarry. There’s always been huge respect and admiration.

Was that an attitude you had from the beginning or was that learnt as you went along?

It was just something that was always in me. My parents weren’t really country people. I got into the shooting and fishing by other routes.

How did you get started in fieldsports?

I just always had a passion about it when I was a kid. I was always out fishing and ferreting. I was out and about all of the time – I think I was one of the last generations to have a free

ADVERTISEMENT childhood. It’s not as easy for children now to just wander off into a forest, say.

You grew up in a town, didn’t you?

I was on the edge of a town, near Coventry. I was born in Lancashire, though, and I returned as soon as I could. We now live in the Lune Valley near the Lake District. I go for a walk every morning before I start work. It’s amazing what inspiration you can get within just half a mile of the country here. It’s always changing.

Do you keep animals?

I’m not a doggy person, but I like other people’s dogs.

What are your influences?

I have always loved Rien Poortvliet’s art. There’s too many to list. I admire so many artists with different styles. Everyone assumes I like Thorburn. He’s not my least favourite but