• Bledsoe is known as a painter and printmaker, but she also worked as a fashion designer and storyteller through live drawing on the BBC.

• “I had no choice but to become an artist. I always drew and painted, and also wrote as a child. I made mythological things, stories, some atavistic things and strange faces,” says the artist in her Gallery M biography.

• At 16 years old, she moved to London to pursue art study. She eventually settled in Paris where she discovered printmaking.

• She worked for several years as an affiliated artist for Printemps Couture in Paris making prints and later the Imprimerie Nationale de France, the official state printer of France.

• About art she says, “Art for me is magic, although it’s also magic when someone falls in love with a work of art, sees it and has to have it live with them in their home. That’s what art is – a torrid love story. You have to create it with your heart full of flowers.”