Artists: there's life beyond London!

The capital is a great place for creatives who can afford it, but for those who can’t, the rest of the country is full of low-cost places where artists are flourishing
Let me start by saying what this article isn’t. It isn’t a celebration of east London’s blink-and-you’ve-missed-it gentrification. Shoreditch, Dalston, Hackney and, more recently, Peckham and Walthamstow have seen communities eroded by Shard-high rents and property prices.Neither is this some dig at London as a home for