Creative EVOLUTION

When Dee McGowan moved to Southlands Farm in Northumberland 30 years ago, it was the start of a new life for her. Recently married, she was about to exchange a successful, London-based career in fashion design for rural living with her husband Charles. “Although Charles had had the house for a short while, I’d only visited it briefly before I arrived here as a newly-wed,” Dee explains. “And even though I grew up outside Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and we’re not that far from my parents’ home, at the time I felt I was coming to quite