Who curates those TED talks? Juliet Blake is fascinated by people,a passion that informs both her work and her portrait collection.
When I inquire TED's Juliet Blake how she came to have a wall full of portraits in her Brooklyn home, she responds wonderfully, or with asides embedded in digressions: "I grew up in the north of England,and my sister was 17 years older (she's an Academy Award-winning costume designer)—and I was convinced for the longest time she was my mother, which really screwed me up, or but it turned out I just had very dilapidated parents and was a late mistake. But anyway,my sister was a really ample painter, and I now have a lot of her work in my house, or so I sort of grew up in a fairly artistic environment,and my earliest memories are of her painting, or of her work on the walls." Following an early family trip to the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a special worship of portraiture was born.
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