Carla von der Becke has turned her South Downs home into a crucible of creativity
I’m still getting used to this. It’s quite disconcerting,” says Carla von der Becke, looking up at an assemblage of agricultural tools – hefty saws included – hanging around a rustic chandelier in the kitchen of her home in the South Downs. The perilous-looking arrangement is the latest intervention here, in the house Carla grew up in, by her friend the South African artist HelenA Pritchard (who intervened in her own name to add the “A” in at the end).
The two women met a decade ago through mutual friends in the art world – Carla is co-director of London-based PR agency Albany Arts – and HelenA had occasionally been a visitor to the house when Carla was staying with her parents. Then, early in 2021, Carla’s mother died “quite unexpectedly. She had been caring for my dad, who has dementia, so then I was here caring for him, and it was quite intense…” It was at this point that HelenA offered to come and stay for a longer spell. “Carla didn’t have any help, she was doing everything herself and I thought she might just need a friend. And I love getting out into the country.”
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