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A brush with destiny

Many people, it seems, move to Italy in search of la dolce vita (the good life).

It’s certainly why New Zealander Jo Durkin took herself off to Umbria, about halfway down Italy’s ‘boot’. But the decade she spent there didn’t just satisfy her desire for fabulous food, wine and a Mediterranean lifestyle, it also delivered a new career – as a ceramic artist.

From a studio tucked behind her home – an 1860 Greytown cottage shared with husband Matt Weston and

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