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 ...

‘Everybody said we were mad!’ laughs Cathie Hubert of the Ashdown Gallery ‘We started a village art gallery in the middle of a recession!’ Two years later she and co-founder Mette Udsholt run a thriving business in Foreset Row, East Sussex and next week launch an exhibition by David Hensel, an artist so collectible that his work is now being acquired by the V & A. The show opens on the 5th October when ...