Nick Willing

And she drew me, obviously, many times, as she did my sisters.

She'd always find something that I hadn't expected her to find.

And often she wasn't even aware that she was discovering these things.

It's almost instinctive that she'd get into your soul through drawing.

So she was a very, very good drawer.

And one of the reasons I think that she chose...

pastel, soft pastel, not oil pastel, but chalk pastel in the early 90s, and that became her medium of choice throughout her life, was because it was a sort of drawing.

She would say that you could draw paintings, is how she would describe it, because it would have all the color and the detail, but it was her way of drawing.

Yeah, she was a story junkie.

She really was.

She grew up with stories.

That was her way of escaping the world, I think.

Escaping her life, escaping her difficulties, but also her way of understanding the world around her.

She had her grandmother.

She had an aunt called Teologera, who was a

brilliant storyteller that would start a story in the morning, keep it going throughout the day.

It would change and develop, and then she could keep it going on for days and weeks if necessary.

She would ask you, what kind of story do you want?

And you'd tell her, oh, I want a story about

an adventure, a young girl on an adventure.