“I don’t think I would have been here if I hadn’t stopped drinking. “We’ve got so much going on and so many positive things, we don’t think about it. (Image: Lincoln Townley)(Image: Lincoln Townley)A portrait takes him two weeks to complete and commissions start from £300,000. “I wouldn’t want to be accepted by the art world - it is far too set in its ways and I like the flexibility of being a maverick. “They tell you don’t think about money but think about the art but I think the two go hand in hand.

Source: Daily Mirror June 29, 2019 19:01 UTC