art forger

Continuing with the self-portrait theme, this month is the turn of my favourite artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, whose life was as passionate and dramatic as his paintings. Before his untimely death at thirty-eight, Caravaggio painted himself in many guises, appearing in many of his masterpieces. In ‘The Taking of Christ’ Caravaggio depicts himself as one of the guards in the background arresting Jesus, holding a Chinese lantern up high to highlight Jesus’ face. He

With the longest month January finally over I wanted to share with you the painting I’ve been working on. Having read in The Antiques Magazine that a Rene Magritte masterpiece is expected to sell for a record £45m at auction, I thought I’d try a little surrealism! The Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte’s’ painting is described as one of the most desirable works in private hands. ‘L’empire des Lumieres’ is the title of the masterpiece, one of a succession of paintings that depi