Barbara Hepworth the Castle Inn; nineteen artists were founding members, including Peter Lanyon and Bernard Leach. Hepworth was also a skilled draughtsman. After her daughter Sarah was hospitalised in 1944, she struck up a close friendship with the surgeon Norman Capener. At Capener's invitation, she was invited to view surgical procedures and, between 1947–1949, she produced nearly eighty drawings of operating rooms in chalk, ink, and pencil. Hepworth was fascinated by the similarities between surgeons and artists, stating: "There is, it seems to me, a close affinity between the work and approach of both physicians and surgeons, and painters and sculptors." In
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