I left school when I was 16 and I think because my parents are very artistic, I had always been expected to go on to art college. And, of course, when you’re a teenager, you just really want to rebel. And so I didn’t really want to do that and I didn’t really want to do anything else, either.
And at the time in the U.K., there was quite a big movement, the Squatting Movement. People squatted empty houses and also squatted land in buses and trucks and things. So I left home and I lived in a bender for a bit, which is a sort of structure made of hazel pole stuck in the ground with a tarpaulin over the top.
And then I bought a caravan and then I bought a bus and I met my partner that I have now and we lived in the bus together and we traveled around the U.K. We worked on fruit farms and I basked. And then I had my daughter and we lived that way until she was about a year old.