The artist who creates creatures

Russian artist Helga Stentzel spent lots of time in a Siberian village with her grandmother when she was little. ‘Entertainment was scarce: two TV channels, no computer, so I’d lie in bed squinting at the carpet until the flowers blurred and I saw a dragon. I’d search for parrots and hedgehogs in the wood knots on my bed.’ Now London-based, the artist creates and photographs the creatures she spies around her so you can see them too. ‘For my polar bear I wanted snow