The celebrated Woodingdean-based sculptor tells how she knew she wanted to get into the arts at 14.
Ms Shepherd, who grew up in Sheffield in the 1980s, said none of her family were "artistic or creative" but that it did not stop her.
Fired with youthful enthusiasm, she contacted sculptor Anthony Bennett who lived near her college. She said: "I went and knocked on his door when I was like 16 and said 'Give me a job!'." Ms Shepherd, an associate member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, said Betty Campbell's statue was commissioned because the Monumental Welsh Women noticed there were no sculptures of eminent women in Wales.Image caption,Her successes now mark a far cry from her early attempts at art work. She recalled the time she decided to fire her own work in the kitchen of her family home at the age of 12.
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