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Your home is full of gleaming silver and natural
shells – your personal trademark?
Some of the silver-and-shell pieces are my own design; I
had them made for me in Bali. We collected most of the
shells, and also the whale teeth, during our wonderful
trips on a beautiful wooden sailing boat called
Silolona,
which we do every year. We’ve sailed with her up through
Thailand, explored the Mergui Archipelago in Burma and
found ourselves in remote parts of Indonesia that I’d never
even heard of.
Your art collection includes some lovely pieces.
Again, it’s grown over many years and largely reflects
our personal histories. I have two scenes from the
Bahamas, where I spent a lot of time in my childhood as
my grandparents had a home there. The others include
English artists like Jeffrey Pratt, famous for his paintings of
South African and Gambian people; Vietnamese artists like
Bui Huu Hung (the two “Royal Ladies”, one hanging in the
dining room, the other in the TV room) and Nguyen Trung,
whose Gauguin-esque figures are utterly beautiful. Another
of my favourites is Garrick Yrondi’s painting of a woman
playing a flute.
How did you get into the field of education?
I majored in education in university, and grew up with one
of the first US independent educational consultants – my
mother, Virginia Bush, who is a pioneer in the industry.
She truly believes children can maximise their potential