Lubaina Himid

I had lots of friends, but I never felt very clever.

Yeah, but that was my charm, not my charm.

my brains.

No, not at all.

Not at all.

I think I didn't really understand that I had something to say until much, much later.

I mean, after art school even.

Well...

The whole flat was always filled with art.

The sculptures, small sculptures or prints or paintings.

There were fabrics, you know, there were fabulous curtains or there's plain carpets, I have to say.

She never went in for pattern carpets.

Funny that.

You know, beautiful cushions.

So everything was very simple and not really expensive, but well found, you know, well chosen.

Yeah, she did.

often describe that every weekend because she worked as a textile designer you know five days a week she'd go out in the morning go to the studio where she was the head of many other textile designers and work with them all day like a like a job rather than wafting about a studio in a kind of floaty dress she was like going to the office

So in the afternoon on Saturdays, we'd either go to a museum or an art gallery or we'd go to department stores like Whiteley's or Selfridges and we'd just wander around.

It didn't matter whether we were in museums or whether we were in department stores.

We'd just wander around and look at...