Financial picture is rosy for economist who owns art gallery

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Cynthia Corbett spent nearly 20 years working as a financial adviser at organisations including The World Bank, Citibank and Shell. During the Eighties and Nineties, she worked with banks and governments in countries including Zimbabwe and Russia.

But in 1998, she resigned to run her own gallery and care for her dyslexic daughter, Carmela, now 20. Mrs Corbett, 50, said: "I couldn't combine the travel and stress from being away with my daughter's educational problems."

Harvard-educated Mrs Corbett swapped her four-bedroom Wimbledon house for a flat in the borough, where she still lives with her City financial adviser husband Jonathan, also 50. Using £100,000 of savings, she converted the flat into the Cynthia Corbett Gallery, where she hangs about 50 pieces, even in the bathroom.

She said: "It's quite a risk without regular pay cheque security, but I couldn't go back."

Mrs Corbett helps 16 London artists, including Tom Leighton. By the second day of last weekend's London Art Fair, she had sold 10 of the 75 works she took.