Barbara Hepworth married Skeaping on 13 May 1925 in Florence. In Italy, Hepworth learned how to carve marble from the master sculptor, Giovanni Ardini. Hepworth and Skeaping returned to London in 1926, where they exhibited their works together from their flat. Their son Paul was born in London in 1929. Her early work was highly interested in abstraction and art movements on the continent. In 1933, Hepworth travelled with Ben Nicholson to France, where they visited the studios of Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brâncuşi. Hepworth later became involved with the Paris-based art movement, Abstraction-Création. In 1933, Hepworth co-founded the Unit
Sally Hepworth Sally Hepworth Sally Hepworth is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of five books, most notably "The Secrets of Midwives", a novel she published in 2015. Hepworth and her works have been featured in media outlets that have included USA Today, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Hepworth worked in both event management and Human Resources prior to her career as a writer. While on maternity leave with her first child, Hepworth wrote "Love Like the French", a novel about a British woman who goes to France after an accident leaves her husband