Are the arts a common thread through the Bradbeer family?
HB: I like to think so, but we’re a fairly young dynasty, so far! Godwin is the first to make a career in art, I’m the second. I have some cousins showing passion and promise, too. I do what I can to encourage them: as soon as there are even just three of us, I can stop being ‘the Other Bradbeer’! DH: Were you conscious of Godwin’s achievements, or did you perhaps even aspire to follow suit as a young girl? HB: I don’t remember perceiving them as achievements when I was little. Drawing was just what he did, and it connected with what I liked doing most. I got it. If anything, the normalness of it was crucial. Many kids, I believe, don’t have ‘artist’ on the list of things they could grow up to be. It’s either discouraged or too-revered, too remote. I think I was privileged to grow up thinking of art as a job like any other. I wanted to be an artist as early as kindergarten, and my family took it seriously. I also loved the spaces connected with what Godwin did. The largeness of the stu
