Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano OBE (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951 – 1 March 2025) was a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling reproduction in Britain. Quotes 2004–2010 I painted beach scenes not because I was feeling nice, but because I wanted to get a particular effect of reflection. Quoted by by Anthony Quinn in Jack Vettriano Pavillion Books , London, 2004 9781862057241 There are so many lines of that song ( Blood on the Tracks , Bob Dylan ) where you think. That is a painting. Interviewed by Sue Lawley on Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4 (2 April 2004). I live in a world of heartbreak. I just seem to be more creative when in some sort of emotional distress. The Poster Boy of Popular Art, The Independent (22 October 2010). About Jack Vettriano The national collections do not buy Vettriano's work because it is meretricious rubbish. It may have a role to play on the walls of a cocktail bar with pretensions, but its intrinsic shallowness, its magazine slickness, the unsightly coyness of its eroticism, the absurd melodrama of its moods, the banality of its imaginative flourishes, the creepiness of its world-view, the facelessness of its finish, all these shortcomings disqualify it from serious consideration by a national collection. Waldemar Januszczak "Illuminating the Renaissance", The Sunday Times (18 January 2004). Januszczak's article was reprinted on his blog. In an interview for The Observer, Vettriano had spoken of his frustration that his work was not considered worthy of being acquired by a major art gallery. External links Category:1951 births Category:2025 deaths