Very inspiring story! Josie Russell from Kent, UK, was 9 when in July 1996 she became the sole survivor of a frenzied attack in which her mother and 6 year-old sister were murdered. The 26-year-old is now forging a successful career as a textile artist. Josie's last four exhibitions of the intricate textile collages she makes of images of Snowdonia have sold out.
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Beautiful face of human resilience: 17 years after the hammer attack that killed her mother and sister, how a talent for art and a boyfriend's love have helped Josie Russell heal
There are scenes etched in Josie Russell’s mind of rainy afternoons spent at a kitchen table surrounded by glue sticks, scraps of coloured paper and stacks of felt tip pens and crayons.
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