The 85-year-old living in her own art installation

How would Kreitzman describe herself?

"Obsessive, bonkers and extremely colourful," she said. "I work outside the mainstream, I have never had any training, I just make it up as I go along.

"I was always told I couldn't be an artist, I could never do the things the way they wanted me to. I was always getting it wrong."

Even as a child colouring with the crayons she loved, she seemed to be doing the wrong thing.

"My mother would say, 'why did you do it like that?' and I could never explain."

Kreitzman does not like to sell her work. She prefers to swap pieces with friends and her pieces are intermingled with many gifts from other people.

"But I don't just throw it together, it all has meaning," she explained. "It makes me feel safe."

She motioned to the Egyptian busts and said: "These heads, they talk to me."

What do they say?

"It depends on what mood they're in and what mood I'm in," she said. "Each has animus, they each have a soul."

Outside, in the back garden, is the Museum Shed, with a sign saying "drama queen" over the door.

"Do you know about the goddess phones?" she asked, sitting down in what she called her "throne" next to a collection of bejewelled old-fashioned telephones.

"You can call a goddess on one of these phones when you really need help," she said. "They connect you to something mystical, and you never know exactly who's going to answer. I love that idea."