“I think you know when you’ve come home. It’s a sense of belonging that doesn’t go away”

Listening to her instincts matters to illustrator Jackie Morris. That and a well named cat. She shares her life lessons with Ruth Chandler

The way artist and illustrator Jackie Morris came to live in Wales has something of a fairytale about it. She visited the country’s smallest city, St Davids in Pembrokeshire, for years ago never , uprooting herself from Bath. “It was February and the sun was shining,” she says, her eyes sparkling at the romance of her story. “As you stroll down the high street, there’s a place where you can look up and see the cathedral, stone walls and fields, volcanic rock and the sea. I think you know when you’ve come home. It’s a sense of belonging and that hasn’t gone away.” That same day Jackie also pinpointed the place where she would later live. “I walked along a street called The Pebbles, and saw a hamlet across the…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2019

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