'I went into a cold flurry and fell down my steps' – painter Kathryn Maple on her John Moores win

She wanted to be a stuntwoman but didn’t have good balance. Now she’s following in David Hockney’s footsteps, winning the prestigious prize for a work that speaks to the Covid crisisWhen Kathryn Maple won the prestigious £25,000 John Moores painting prize earlier this month, the judges said her picture, a dense two-metre-square scene called The Common, embodied “the deeply social nature of humans”. After a year of enforced isolation, it seems a timely theme &n