Patricia Grayburn Patricia Grayburn Patricia Grayburn, MBE DL has a long involvement with the arts in Surrey after moving to become Arts Administrator at University of Surrey in 1983. She was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey in 2002 and was awarded MBE in 2004 for services to the arts. She is responsible for the Lewis Elton Gallery and the breadth of public art across the University of Surrey campus and her roles include Chair of the Guildford Book Festival, Executive Director of the Guildford International Music Festival and Committee member of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Trust, Royal Ballet Benevolent Fund and
Jo Neary Hard vs Craft Woman", which they performed at Komedia Southside in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Each performed various characters for half an hour. Craft Woman is Peg Bird, Neary's Bohemian artist. Sean Hard is Graham Darg's deluded survivalist, his voice modelled on that of the actor Sean Bean. Neary has written on her blog that her Craft Woman character was "inspired by The Bloomsbury Group. Actually, it's inspired by a very particular living lady who works closely with the Bloomsbury descendants at Charleston Farmhouse near Firle but I don't want to name her, she might go on the internet one