CROCKETT, Sophie

1969 - ?

Sophie Crockett was born in Hampshire on 20 October 1969 and was brought up on a yacht as her parents circumnavigated the globe. After graduating from London University’s Royal Holloway and Bedford New College with a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies, she was a life-model at Eton school during her university years. Sophie travelled to East Germany as the Berlin Wall fell and then became the lead singer in a punk band from Nuremburg and then travelling into rural Russia as a timber buyer, joining forces with her father Mike Crockett, a yachtsman turned artist, and they navigated post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s. Returning to the UK, she continued to draw in pen & ink and taught herself to paint oil portraits. Sophie is married to artist, Timothy Shepard, and has two children. Moving to a boat on Suffolk's river Deben, she renovated a ruined Martello Tower at Felixstowe Ferry and exhibiting automata and drawings. Sophie made further visits to Turkey, Armenia, and the war-torn enclave of Nagorno Karabakh seeking gun-stock walnut. After another move to an unheated mountain house in Montagne Noir, Southern France, an uncle purchased an easel for her, when she started painting again. Sophie authored books including her first 'After the Snow' (2012) and which she sold to publishers Macmillan. Sophie has now returned to her roots and now has a permanent studio at her home near Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

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