‘She decided to give me away.’ A smile stretched broadly across his face and Poppy looked very satisfied with the answer.
meAlex had then prompted her to talk about her own art, her inspiration and life in Paris. As Audrey listened, she heard another side of her friend. She knew that Poppy was not just talented, but was a gifted painter and sculptor; however, it was how she viewed her own talent and the sources of her inspiration that surprised her.
‘I start in a dark place, I have to admit,’ she’d said. ‘Somehow, that negative energy, I’d call it, seems to draw something out of me and out of the medium I’m working with. But what I find is that as I work, as I begin to shape, and that means to remove rather than to add, I find a type of... purity, sometimes godly, sometimes even darker t
