art forger

For this month’s blog I will be spotlighting one of the artists I love: Chaim Soutine. Born Chaim-Iche Solomonovich Sutin, Soutine was a prototypical wild artist. Soutine’s temper and depression are both well documented and were poured into the paint he layered on the canvas, which was typically one effervescent wave of colour. One of his critics correctly noted, “Soutine’s picture looked as if he had spit his soul out on linen along with his blood.” Soutine’s body of work tr

Now that spring has finally sprung and the days are so much lighter, I’ve actually managed to paint outside already – putting something of a spring in my step too! With exciting new projects, this year is set to be a busy one. Peter James, global best-selling writer and author of the Roy Grace Series, will be bringing his eighteenth book in the series out on 29th September (available to pre-order on Amazon). ‘Picture You Dead’ is about an art forger… I’ll give you three guess