After an extended jeunesse doree spending lots of time working, eating and drinking in Italy, Catherine buckled down and taught history of art for a few years in some rather well to do schools in London and the Midlands. She is now returning to her freelance roots combining writing, a PhD in art history and consultancy in cultural insight and semiotics. She loves boiled eggs, Pontormo, a good negroni, DVD box sets, steak tartare in Paris, Mediterranean summers, her cat Marcel and David Bowie, but loathes not being able to afford more holidays, lamb chops, cold weather, hangovers and overpriced art exhibitions. What makes her a hedonist? “A fondness for drinking Campari at lunch.”