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Artistic INFLUENCE

Jemma Savoretti frequently stops to wonder at the beauty surrounding her whilst taking the children to school along winding country lanes. Be it a glimpse of apple blossom or a morning mist rising over the hills, her artist’s eye often needs a closer look at these small glories of nature. “If I’ve got the time, I’ll whip out my sketchbook then and there, or I’ll pick something from the hedgerows to paint later,” she says.

It was moving to this bucolic spot in Oxfordshire with her husband Jack, a singer-songwriter, and their children – Connie, now seven and Winter, four – in 2016 that reawakened a passion for painting in actress and artist Jemma (who goes by her maiden name Powell professionally). The family’s first winter here saw the biggest snowfall in decades and whilst others battened down the hatches,

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