ART AND CREATIVITY are in Kate Corbett-Winder’s gene pool: her grandmother was an artist who trained at Slade and her grandfather, a writer, was also a keen painter who encouraged her to paint as she grew up. At her secondary school, she was lucky to find an incredibly inspiring art master, Robin Child, now an octogenarian, who is still teaching in Devon and whom she still tries to see once a year for a course. “It gives me a reboot and a fresh way of looking again. It’s like a blast of premium art petrol!” she laughs.
Corbett-Winder initially studied fashion and journalism, working at Vogue in the eighties, before moving to her husband’s family estate – Vaynor Park – in mid-Wales where she began painting. “Unless the fashion is of the best of its kind – cut exquisitely from the most beautiful materials –
