I’m still trying to work out
what I want to do when I grow up. I suppose I’m a bit like an onion, still looking for my core while trying to the shed the dry old skin from the outside.
I have spent most of my life as a painter but also worked as a Humanist celebrant and a Citizens Advice adviser so I’ve listened to lots of stories. Now it’s time to tell some of my own.
BonnetLand
A Jane Austen first edition passes through some dodgy relationships, old and new, as it’s sold, stolen, lost, and finally dumped at Bath’s Jane Austen Festival.
Annette’s showcase piece is a pilot for a 6 x ten minute episode TV series called BonnetLand and was inspired by the ubiquity and inexhaustibility of Bath’s most famous resident, Jane Austen.
Each episode features a couple from each of Jane Austen’s six novels and is about ‘finding the one’; are we sold a myth or do we, like swans, mate for life?
Did Jane Austen get it right? Should we base our choices on social class, looks, age, education, money, parental input?
It’s a light-hearted look at the vagaries of finding a partner, and then deciding if you want to hang on to them or not.