Fiona Pickles the artist having her first exhibition aged 60
Over the last few months, mixed media artist and ‘ botanical alchemist’ Fiona Pickles has had two big reasons to celebrate: her 60th birthday and her first ever, solo exhibition. &#...
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Summer dresses, sustainability & celebrating small business with fashion designer Justine Tabak
With several decades experience designing for big name fashion brands, in her early 50s, Justine Tabak decided to launch her eponymous label. Having worked for some of the best-known British fa...
That’s Not My Age Podcast: the breast surgeon with breast cancer, Dr Liz O’Riordan
My latest podcast guest is an extraordinary woman. The consultant breast surgeon, Dr Liz O’Riordan’s world turned upside-down in 2015 when, aged 40, she was diagnosed with br...
A debut novel from 61-year-old Julie Owen-Moylan – and expert advice on getting published
Author Julie Owen-Moylan has just published her first book, That Green-Eyed Girl, at 61. She’s been writing all her life but only in her 50s did she consider it might become a career; finally se...
That’s Not My Age podcast: Portrait Artist of the Year Curtis Holder
Imagine my surprise when I switched over to Sky Art’s Portrait Artist of the Year (2020) and there was friend-of-a-friend, Curtis Holder. With only one male guest so far on the That’...
Supporting Small Businesses and Young British Designers (and should we be shopping, right now?)
While stores are closed and countries shutdown, should we really be shopping online for clothes during the COVID-19 crisis? Obviously, fashion is not a priority right now and most of us have enough cl...
That’s Not My Age Podcast Episode 1: Lucinda Chambers
The first That’s Not My Age podcast is an absolute corker. I can’t tell you how delighted I am to kick things off with style heroine Lucinda Chambers.
Setting up a business in your 50s: JamJar Flowers
Melissa Richardson likens managing a floristry business to running a successful model agency, ‘Flowers are like models, they respond well to good treatment.’ The founder of JamJar Flowers ...
Drift sea glass jewellery: perfect for beach-lovers
There’s a vintage jar in the bathroom at That’s Not My Age Mansions that is full of small shells, fragments of sea glass and teeny-tiny polished pebbles. This beach treasure is a memento o...
What Liz Earle did next… (started a new business in her 50s)
Liz Earle co-founder of the eponymous beauty brand turned champion of midlife start-ups has launched a new business, in her 50s. And she’s not alone.
Creative Women: Lucille Lewin on fashion, art and achieving an MA in ceramics at 69
A thirst for knowledge and continual learning is what drives Lucille Lewin. ‘I really hate not learning and wanted a goal,’ the 69-year-old artist tells me in her London studio.