![]() I’ve either done it, seen it, heard it or I want to do it. “What I’m painting now is mainly autobiographical. I can safely tell you that more women like my work than men. “Some call it misogynistic, or anti-feminism. “I make no apologies whatsoever for what I paint,” he said. He claims the women, both Eastern European, are “not young”, although at 38 and 42, they have decades on Vettriano, whose paintings often depict older men with scantily-clad younger women in erotic trysts.īut he scoffs at claims that his work is misogynistic, and is horrified at a recent trend of galleries putting up ‘trigger warnings’ alongside works that deal with potentially offensive themes. They see it’s not just Joe Ordinary, which almost definitely helps.” “But it goes a long way to say ‘oh, and by the way, look at my website’. So the opportunities to meet the opposite sex are really dwindling. I can hardly bloody walk, never mind dance. “And I think I’ve found a new one in Edinburgh. “I’ve got a muse, a beautiful woman in Nice where I have an apartment,” he said. The second is a waitress in one of his favourite Edinburgh bistros. The first, he met in Nice, through the sale of a garage. However, he said he now has two new women in his life, despite his age making romance more difficult. “I just used to go to Sainsbury’s, buy a bottle of vodka, and then get some cocaine. “I was just trying to anaesthetise myself. “I was in a very destructive relationship, which ended when Covid began, and shook me both emotionally and financially,” he said. He is painting regularly again, following a period living “like Jack Nicholson in The Shining” during the first months of Covid, while he stayed in an empty Edinburgh hotel and lost the motivation to create new art. He is now preparing to show some of his early works, copies of famous images created while he taught himself to paint, at a major exhibition in his home county of Fife, which opens this month. The painter, who once made £500,000 per year from reproductions of his paintings despite critical disdain, said the women had helped inspire him after a period of depression that saw him turn to vodka and cocaine during lockdown. Jack Vettriano, one of Britain’s best-known artists, has revealed that he is enjoying a creative renaissance after finding, at the age of 70, not one new female muse, but two. He is known for an obsession with women and his own erotic encounters are often depicted in his notoriously sexually charged art. ![]() The 70-year-old artist, famous for his erotic works, enjoys creative renaissance after finding new inspiration amid depression Jack Vettriano: My new female muses lifted me out of lockdown vodka and cocaine spiral
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