Variously, a textile conservator, furniture designer and acupuncturist, and with a variety of hobbies including website design, right-to-repair, music making, painting and writing, Betty Quicke has quite the skill set.

David Thompson was born and brought up in Consett, County Durham. He moved to London in his early twenties and lived there for 14 years, during which time he made 3 short films and wrote

Pamela Coleman Smith was an artist, illustrator and writer. She was born in 1878 to American merchant Charles Edward Smith and his wife Corinne Colman – sister of painter Samuel Coleman. Although in London at the time of her birth, the family spent most of the first decade of her life in Manchester before moving to Jamaica.