Carne Griffiths' fascinating style is the product of a classical training followed by the twelve years he spent working at the longest-established gold wire embroidery firm in the world. There, after graduating from Maidstone college in 1995, he worked his way up from apprentice to chief creative director and his work was featured on catwalk collections for famous couturiers and theatre designers. But then ...

David Hensel spoke to us about his art, megalomania and an obsession with trying to find out how things work. 'I wasn't supposed to be an artist. I was supposed to be a doctor like the rest of my family.' But after a restless period at medical school, David Hensel decided to concentrate on his art, and has been producing paintings, fine sculptures and jewellery as a matter of obsession for 30 years since th ...