Selina Gardner’s love of antiques began early, with childhood memories of rummaging in dusty second-hand shops, setting up a stall selling porcelain figures and old books outside her home at six years

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There’s a fairytale quality to Sophie Nichols’s work – a cast of tiny characters for whom a gentle push or the turn of a handle is the breath of life