The Lady of Shallott is one of my favourite pictures. It hung on my sister's bedroom wall and as teenagers we used to wonder why she looked so melancholy. Lost and lonely ourselves, we thought the lady in the boat might be waiting for someone. The poem, The Lady of Shalott' by Alfred Tennyson, tells the story of this young woman in medieval England, imprisoned on an island near Camelot. She must weave a colourful web and only watch the world outside her tower through a mir

This article comes with kind permission of my client who I have been working with on the sticky business of shame. I have great...