#emilypettigrew #figurativepainting #figureinlandscape #creativelife #creativewisdom #artistblog #jamesmaynorth 1.    What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? My ‘straight’ job is antiquarian bookseller, so books play a huge part in my daily life. My favorite of all time is Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth. Two and three would be Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs and Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan, not necessarily in order of preference.    2.