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Latest commission: "SAVE THE DATE" - a cheeky 'adaptation' of an image seen on a tray, as requested by patron. No idea who the original artist is.
Hmm, perhaps I should have been a forger? I'm good at copying things, though I say it myself.
My dad's godfather - 'A' - was a forger of famous paintings - he earned a good living from it. Forgeries for insurance purposes, museums and galleries, films and television etc. He lived in a tenement building in Soho, in a flat with no water or electricity. It was marvellous in retrospect, but at the time - bearing in mind I was about 10/11 years old when I visited him there with my parents and already showing signs of the A.D.H.D to come - I thought it was quite alarmingly grubby, cold and dingy. No doubt that building was raised many decades ago and luxury apartments stand there now.
How different Soho is these days. Gone (most of) the sex shops and violin menders; the winos/famous photographers/artists and actors, the barrow-boys and traders and all the lost souls Soho gathered into a box of earthly delights...
How different Soho is these days. Gone (most of) the sex shops and violin menders; the winos/famous photographers/artists and actors, the barrow-boys and traders and all the lost souls Soho gathered into a box of earthly delights...
