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From an early age I was fascinated with building and design. I used to spend hours in the garden creating fantastic ‘houses’ that I would abandon once they were completed. Later, at school, I wasn’t particularly good at art generally but I loved TD and had a good eye for colour and so my design ideas went down on paper. However, like most people I didn’t follow up on this talent. Instead, I read History and English at University, which I don’t regret, and everyone thought that I’d become a teacher… not me! Since the age of four I have been involved in dancing in some capacity or other and longed to be a ballet dancer. But I just kept growing taller and taller. To get out of paying school fees when I hit my mid-teens I taught the under 13’s which showed me that teaching just wasn’t for me. When I left university I didn’t really know what I wanted to do so I ended up, by default, working in marketing for some of the biggest names in construction and professional services. I have always wanted to go on learning and so at evening classes and via distance learning I studied everything from business French to lingerie making. One of the courses I undertook was a professional interior design course with Rhodec International. This brings me to today. The course has been fantastic and demanding (I’d forgotten everything I’d been taught about TD!!) and it’s given me the confidence to strike out in a new direction. Also whilst I’m too old now to prance about on stage as a dancer I’ve also kept up two ‘sidelines’ that I started at uni – film extra work and modelling. I’m hopeful that all my experience, qualifications and passion can be used for the good of both the client and my company. My Mum, who has many years of experience of house renovation, is also a director and helps to keep me from going off into a fantasy world (many of the celebrity designers could do with this support and then just maybe they’d remember that they don’t have to live with the finished result … the client does). I take a lot of my inspiration from nature and the Art Deco period. These may seem at odds but for my own tastes I like to keep things simple. This doesn’t, however, mean that every design idea I come up with requires stripped floors, neutral walls and not an ornament out of place. Instead, I endeavour to look at projects from all angles (must be because I’m a Libran!), including what is realistic and practical.
Anne Brockett |
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