Interview with Patricia Dixon, textile designer and lecturer Age 32. Comes from London.

Has your career followed a set plan?
So you set up your own company?
How did you get involved in education?
What did you talk to the students about?
And gradually, the teaching became more important?
How do you manage to teach and to do your own work?
I'm very lucky in that Newman College puts a high value on research and external experience that then feeds back into the students. So I still do a lot of work for exhibitions and arts centres. I'm also involved in various community arts programmes and do residencies in schools. My business continues to trade and I do one-off commissions, I can afford to choose which ones I want to do.
What do you like most about your working life?
Any advice for young people on the brink of their careers?
Lastly, do you look forward to going to work every day?

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