Portrait of an artist - NN Journal article
Everyone likes publicity, particularly when it’s good! I’m no different. Sarah Ward of NN Journal paid a visit to my studio recently and has now posted her findings online.
“If ever anyone was born to be an artist, surely it’s Cordell Garfield,” she begins.
“It’s such a perfect name for someone of his profession, that when we meet at his studio at the newly opened Vulcan Works in Fetter Street, Northampton, I ask him whether it is the one he was given at birth.
“Yes, he says. It sort of works. I can’t work out why my dad came up with it because he is such a straight guy, but he got the name from Cordell Hull, who was US secretary of state in the forties and fifties. My dad heard it and decided to call me it.”