Shonaleigh Cumbers had been running up and down stairs between home and office to catch one of the two phones I’d been ringing, to conduct our interview. She relays the scenario to me, laughing, and although I’m on the phone, I get a visual picture of her frantically lunging for the receiver just as it stops ringing.
Shonaleigh is a storyteller, and a busy one at that. I catch up with her between gigs to talk about the art and her residency in Northumberland which recently came to a close.
