This week on What's Your Story I sit down for a long overdue chat with artist Kate MccGwire. I met Kate back when I was running my old blog, and have done written Q&A's with her, but have never interviewed her formally. We spoke this summer while she was working on her studio barge, a boat that lives on the Thames in London. Kate is an incredibly private person, and doesn't often grant interviews -- this was a special opportunity for me. If you are not familiar with Kate's work, its exceptionally prolific (if that's a possibility), she uses feathers to create otherworldly sculptures that are not only beautiful, but dark and brooding. Her work ranges is size and feather collection -- but every single one of them is unique and absolutely stunning. She's shown all over Europe and New York, and has 10 museum shows in the coming year. Kate has been working with feathers over the past 10 years, and at the moment doesn't see an ending in sight. As with all of my conversations, we cover a wide variety of topics over the next hour. Some highlights are our mutual love for pigeons, the places Kate gets her feathers from, when work takes on a life of its own, developing a second career, and the process behind her work, as well as the importance of pushing yourself to reach out to people within your industry. Because we discuss a lot of her pieces, I have posted many of them below for you to get an idea of her work. Please do check out her website. Kate is also on Twitter, and Instagram.