Nick Willing

Thank you.

You're sitting in Paula's chair.

That's where she sat.

She arrived in the morning for breakfast.

She'd get here every morning quite early and she'd work throughout the day.

She'd take a little nap after lunch, then finish about six, seven o'clock in the evening, have a glass of champagne in that chair and off she'd go home.

And the only place that she was really happy, I have to admit, is here in her studio.

which she sometimes call her playroom.

Yeah.

Yeah, she'd mostly eat here.

Oh, really?

This is where she'd have her lunch and her breakfast and her snack in the evening and her glass of champagne.

She once said to me, I'm a drawer, she said, making up a new word which had an extra R in it.

I'm a drawer.

Your father's the painter.

I'm the drawer.

And I think that was because she understood, figured out everything, almost everything in her life through drawing.

And it was the way that she could process her feelings, could understand the world around her and also understand people.

You'd be a bit scared if she decided to want to draw you because you don't know exactly what she might find out.

It was quite unnerving.