Marcus Harvey a year with full colour reproductions and a commitment to no advertising. The cover design is in yellow, with the word "TURPS" and the iconic banana of Andy Warhol. In 2012, Turps Art School was founded to allow emerging and mid career painters to take a year painting intensive with other practicing painters, it has been heralded as an alternative model for arts education by Jonathan Jones for "The Guardian" in 2014 as "The renegade art school proving that painting is not dead." Harvey is known for his tabloid-provoking portrayal of Moors murderer Myra Hindley, created from handprints taken from
Royal Society of Portrait Painters as a millennial exhibition. The idea was to represent ordinary people from all walks of life, and thereby offer a picture of the United Kingdom as it moved from the 20th century into the 21st. Each portrait is donated by a Member and Members continue to add to this collection. The Collection has been housed at Girton College (one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge) since 2002 as a long-term loan, and is open to the public every day. Royal Society of Portrait Painters The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) is an art society based