Cork-born textile artist Aiveen Daly traded the corporate ladder for a life making art. Twenty-one years on, she creates bespoke work from her London studio destined for the penthouses, palaces and private planes of discerning collectors and clients.  “I went to a convent school in Cork and was always obsessed with sewing. It was my favourite thing to be doing, making the gingham aprons and the knitted poodles, and all the rest of it. While everybody else is going, ‘Why do we have to do this crap?’, I was like, ‘Give me more’,” she laughs. “But being from a professional…

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